Chisels?

[autographcollector11]

I have a feeling that these are chisels....from Illinois.
What do you think? Picture of known examples attached.

 

[autographcollector11]

known example....

 

[Rege-PA]

Possible gun flints

 

[Kaleb71386]

Square one looks like a scraper.

 

[Ohio_Doug]

Square ones are likely gun flints.

 

[autographcollector11]

Thanks. If they are flints, what type of gun used them and how old would they be?

 

[catherine1]

From your pics they appear to be scrapers or broken bases. Gun flints are more rectangular and smaller. Plus wrong material for a gun flint.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

From your pics they appear to be scrapers or broken bases. Gun flints are more rectangular and smaller. Plus wrong material for a gun flint.

I agree with Catherine, they look like broken pieces of points......

 

[autographcollector11]

They seem to thick to be a broken base of a point- no?
also seem to squared at the end....

 

[Kaleb71386]

This is what gun flint looks like if this helps.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

They seem to thick to be a broken base of a point- no?
also seem to squared at the end....

knives and spear points many times are thick...

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

This is what gun flint looks like if this helps.

Nice hand full of musket flints....

 

[Kaleb71386]

Nice hand full of musket flints....

Not mine but would be sweet if it was.. Just trying to help

 

[The Grim Reaper]

The first picture is a tray of Gun Flints and the rest are of Stone and Flint Chisels and I believe your pieces aren't either. The Stone Chisel is made from Black Diorite which is a very heavy and dense stone. It shows lots of battering on the Poll end and has polish on the bit from use. Quite a few of the Flint ones show use polish on the edges as well.

 

[Mrdigz]

Awesome pieces! I really like That chisel

 

[unclemac]

you guys are showing French and British gun flints...Indian made ones won't be the honey or black colored typicals.

 

[rock]

you guys are showing French and British gun flints...Indian made ones won't be the honey or black colored typicals.

I find the black flints but dont know the age on them.

 

[unclemac]

I find the black flints but dont know the age on them.

give this a quick read....figure about a 100...120 year span...1720ish to 1840ish...who knows, military, Indian, frontiersman....hard to say.

Gunflints in Georgia

 

[unclemac]

or this...odd...

Original 18th Century British and French Flintlock Musket Flints- Sold by the Pound ima-usa.com

 

[Rege-PA]

give this a quick read....figure about a 100...120 year span...1720ish to 1840ish...who knows, military, Indian, frontiersman....hard to say.

Gunflints in Georgia

Thanks, that was a great read!