Found in the woods????

[dduffy]

I found these items way back in the woods. The trap was not set which was good for me.

 

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[Silver Searcher]

I say great finds

VPR

Yes I agree.

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[hunterV3]

dduffy, it looks like the axe heads are 3 different varieties. Saw a chart of how to ID axe heads and their uses somewhere but can't find it now, maybe someone has it. I'll keep looking. Again, nice finds, looks like a good spot. dfxhunter(now V3 if this snow EVER melts)

 

[IronSpike]

Nice relics Looks like a good spot to hunt. The libstick tube is sweet

Is the melted piece copper?

 

[RPG]

Nice hunt dduffy. Looks like that site has potential.

You can bet your sweet arse, if I ever find a steel trap, I won't post it.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Nice hunt dduffy. Looks like that site has potential.

You can bet your sweet arse, if I ever find a steel trap, I won't post it.

You can post it RPG....just don't use it

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[VERMONTPACKRAT]

I was curious about the "glob" of what looks like copper too.

 

[rogues71]

Nice finds

 

[D-minus]

Nice finds, by the way.

 

[dduffy]

HOLY COW BATMAN "I THINK IT'S A TRAP"

OK stop!!!!! It's good everyone can let people know how they feel but we are not going to change anyone here. Right or Wrong we should not judge others because of there beliefs. So I'm going crazy trying to figure out what this is so let's get along and figure this out.


P.S it's not a lipstick tube.

 

[ivan salis]

no the winner is the finder of the trap * who posted his find -- as a added plus he removed it from the woods -- however he did say it was not "set" at the time he found it -- clearly it looks as if its been out there for a good while at some deep woods trapping camp from long ago.

 

[ivan salis]

nope not lip stick tube --its a match safe --minus the lid --keeps your matches dry to start camp fires with . -- having dry matches --being able to start a fire in remote areas can mean the drifferance between life and death.

 

[Silver Searcher]

nope --its a match safe --minus the lid --keeps your matches dry to start camp fires with . --

That's what I thought as well when I looked in the whatsits thread.

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[CRUSADER]

Nice Trap.

 

[DMN]

Does the match safe have a top? Looks like it is solid at the bottom. Do you think it will unscrew?

 

[Silver Searcher]

Does the match safe have a top? Looks like it is solid at the bottom. Do you think it will unscrew?

I think the tops already off

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[DMN]

Hey Silver. Thanks, but I think it isn't. There's a pic with it next to a dime. Thing is, maybe I'm missing something but it didn't really look like it had threads. I'm going to look at it again to make sure. Wondering if it has been cleaned enough, if there was any type of writing on the cylinder or the top.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Hey Silver. Thanks, but I think it isn't. There's a pic with it next to a dime. Thing is, maybe I'm missing something but it didn't really look like it had threads. I'm going to look at it again to make sure. Wondering if it has been cleaned enough, if there was any type of writing on the cylinder or the top.

It's been solved in whatsits, it' a Lippy holder

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[ivan salis]

its been found out --lip stick tube --he pulled it open -- they used to commonly reuse the old lip stick type tubes for match safes to keep their matches dry --thats why I said match safe -- since just about all trappers were men -- there must have been a woman with him or he was using the lip stick as a form of "chap stick" I guess , or the guy was very ah "differant".

 

[DMN]

OK...kind of thought so actually. I have a few match safes from the turn of the century (1890's) and they generally screw together with a wax seal built into the top. That did look like a lip stick cartridge or maybe a suppository! Thanks for the reply.

 

[steve from ohio]

I found these items way back in the woods. The trap was not set which was good for me.

I am a professional trapper and I make most of my money by trapping moles.

I then cut off their back ends and put them in a jar and sell them as molasses.