Heljp Id metal from cw site

[stevengugas]

Found this by a stream on my property which sits on a Confederate camp site. It's about ten inches long and 1 1/2 inch wide. Looks like Iron. Any ideas?

 

[Tpmetal]

that my friend is the end of a scythe blade
http://www.funkymonkeyprops.com/userimages/vintage scythe farm tool.JPG

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Yep.

I still use them. New and old.

 

[stevengugas]

Thanks, recognize it now. Before it was a CW campsite it was a colonial farm

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Yours is post Civil War.

The stiffening channel on your piece was produced in a production mill and appears to be a Seymour. They were founded in 1872. Other possibility a North Wayne (Oakland, Maine from 1879 1967)

Older blades were forged by hand and flat tapered with a "T" shaped spine for stiffness.

 

[A2coins]

cool find

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[Tpmetal]

Yours is post Civil War.

The stiffening channel on your piece was produced in a production mill and appears to be a Seymour. They were founded in 1872. Other possibility a North Wayne (Oakland, Maine from 1879 1967)

Older blades were forged by hand and flat tapered with a "T" shaped spine for stiffness.

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Stepping it up on the I'd, nice info I learned something today

 

[cw0909]

I learned something today too
the nice thing about the whats it, you read,look,learn
find junk like metal, and oh ya ive seen this b4