DocBeav
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Dirt Hunting at a neighbor's house...lots of "stuff" and a brass silverware mold?
Went to a neighbors house that I have hunted a few times and where I found some musket balls and my first Indian head penny. Found a bunch of stuff there today, mostly shotgun brass and some crap but I did find some pieces of an old cap gun and some other stuff. I'm curious as to what the brass thing is...It is marked with the words knife, fork and spoon on one side but the other side has some random letters and the word "meatcan" on the other. Trying to figure out if it is some sort of silverware mold and/or something that some kid was messing about with sometime ago when using dad's metal stamps! Where it says spoon, fork it looks like it could be the end of a handle. It's REALLY heavy...can't even weigh it on my little jewelery scale, says "overload" on the screen! (prob gonna post it in the "what is it" forum as well to see if anyone there can ID it)
The lead weights look home made and are quite large (round one is 10.9 oz, triangular one is 19.25 oz) . Though both are still dirty, you can see the heavy white patina on them so I guess they have been around for a while but I don't know how long. Anyone venture a guess on them? Fishing weights? From some sort of scale? Is there a way to tell age of a piece of lead based on the patina or is it more about the kind of soil it has been in?
No coins this time but maybe next hunt...low tide tonight so I'll probably be somewhere on the beach getting a hunt in there before the next wave of the "Polar Vortex" hits us again this week! Thanks for looking!
Went to a neighbors house that I have hunted a few times and where I found some musket balls and my first Indian head penny. Found a bunch of stuff there today, mostly shotgun brass and some crap but I did find some pieces of an old cap gun and some other stuff. I'm curious as to what the brass thing is...It is marked with the words knife, fork and spoon on one side but the other side has some random letters and the word "meatcan" on the other. Trying to figure out if it is some sort of silverware mold and/or something that some kid was messing about with sometime ago when using dad's metal stamps! Where it says spoon, fork it looks like it could be the end of a handle. It's REALLY heavy...can't even weigh it on my little jewelery scale, says "overload" on the screen! (prob gonna post it in the "what is it" forum as well to see if anyone there can ID it)
The lead weights look home made and are quite large (round one is 10.9 oz, triangular one is 19.25 oz) . Though both are still dirty, you can see the heavy white patina on them so I guess they have been around for a while but I don't know how long. Anyone venture a guess on them? Fishing weights? From some sort of scale? Is there a way to tell age of a piece of lead based on the patina or is it more about the kind of soil it has been in?
No coins this time but maybe next hunt...low tide tonight so I'll probably be somewhere on the beach getting a hunt in there before the next wave of the "Polar Vortex" hits us again this week! Thanks for looking!
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