Great day old coin and big ball

[recondigger]

Got out in the cold today with my dad and found a new virgin site in a plowed field. I found a 1906 IH, a 1794 large cent a couple bell pieces buckles, buttons, a beautiful arrow head and a few what it's? and a big glass ball with a horse in it! I thought the horse was metal but its not it was found at the same site by eye. I have no clue what the glass ball is or was. And some brass broken pieces of something. My father found a large cent 18? no date and a 1837 Canadian one cent token some buttons and the usual home site stuff.

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[Rusted_Iron]

Nice early finds. Those brass parts look like some sort of catch, in fact they look familiar. I'm thinking they're from a piece of furniture, but could be from something else.

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[wheelerite]

the glass ball is a sulphide marble, if you put it in water you will be able to see the figure in the centre clearly.
sometimes they used them with the claw foot furniture and sometimes they used just solid glass balls in the claw foot furniture.
I think I see a figure in that glass globe.
kim

 

[The Boots]

Great finds, I agree that it is some kind of glass marble. Some have some value, I don't know about yours in that condition. You can post it in the marble section. They are knowledgeable about that sort of thing and can tell you what you have.

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

That's a nice bunch of finds, quite the variety.
Yes sulfide marble, it's a bit of a shame all the chips as they are fairly valueable, not to mention just nice. I'd love to find one of those, I think I'v only managed a couple marbles in total.
Nice point too.

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[Msbeepbeep]

Congrats those are some nice finds!

 

[recondigger]

The brass things are driving me nuts I can't figure them out

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[jewelerguy]

really cool finds

 

[TheCoinKid]

The brass items remind me of pieces of an umbrella.

 

[silversweeper]

I'll be interested to see what others say that turned looking piece shown in your first picture is to the right and below the bell. I found a broken part of something very similar quite deep at a very old site here locally and don't have the foggiest what it was from. Is your solid, or hollow?
Great finds by the way! HH

 

[recondigger]

I'll be interested to see what others say that turned looking piece shown in your first picture is to the right and below the bell. I found a broken part of something very similar quite deep at a very old site here locally and don't have the foggiest what it was from. Is your solid, or hollow?
Great finds by the way! HH

Yeah it's hollow I think it could be from a brass bed corner or end of a curtain rod maybe

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[recondigger]

Hey I have to say I jumped the gun it's Not a 1794 it's a 1797 large cent

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[Greylock]

The large cent looks more like a draped bust rather than a liberty cap but its a great find either way

 

[recondigger]

The large cent looks more like a draped bust rather than a liberty cap but its a great find either way

It's not a liberty cap

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[doninbrewster]

I was going to say it's a draped bust style large cent, not a liberty cap. The didn't make draped bust 94's. Nice find regardless.

 

[recondigger]

I was going to say it's a draped bust style large cent, not a liberty cap. The didn't make draped bust 94's. Nice find regardless.

Well what got me was some corrosion at the back of her head and some that looked like a 4 after a better cleaning I then saw what it really was but any 1700's US coin I will take

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[Blueblood]

Great finds! Was there a house or community where the plowed field is now? Those sulfide marbles with the figures inside are really neat and hard to find above ground too! I don't see them too often, even in antique shops.

 

[recondigger]

Great finds! Was there a house or community where the plowed field is now? Those sulfide marbles with the figures inside are really neat and hard to find above ground too! I don't see them too often, even in antique shops.

Yes I there was a house built in the 1790's

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[SilverForBrains]

that marble is awesome