Honey hole! Buckles galore from an old road.

[arbuckle]

Further down an old road I have been hunting. Earliest map I can find with the road so far is 1843. Just off the side, started getting signal after signal and worked my way around a 15x15 foot area. Nearly every dig was a relic. Enjoy!

 

[KSDirtfisher77]

Looks like a awesome relic hunt!! What would them 6 rectangle buckles been used for? They appear to have dates on them?

Thanks.

 

[arbuckle]

Looks like a awesome relic hunt!! What would them 6 rectangle buckles been used for? They appear to have dates on them?

Thanks.

I’m not quite sure yet what they were for, but the dates are certainly there. 1860s-1870s!

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

Further down an old road I have been hunting. Earliest map I can find with the road so far is 1843. Just off the side, started getting signal after signal and worked my way around a 15x15 foot area. Nearly every dig was a relic. Enjoy!

outstanding group of relic recoveries, wtg!!!

 

[cudamark]

Looks like you lived up to your screen name!

 

[Nathan W]

Great honey hole spot! That's a lot of buckles for sure at one place

 

[arbuckle]

Further down an old road I have been hunting. Earliest map I can find with the road so far is 1843. Just off the side, started getting signal after signal and worked my way around a 15x15 foot area. Nearly every dig was a relic. Enjoy!

Update on the ring! It’s not gold!
I decided to clean it up because shiny good, and what a story once I could make out the stamps.
Visible now are 4 features - PATENT P.O. HELLSUND A as well as a soldered joint. The joint is broken due to corrosion but the original solder joint is still wedged in. Link to original article with a picture of a nondug example that was submitted to a museum: https://digitaltmuseum.se/011023775590/ring
Translation:
Ring

The Head Lieder (1966):

"Ring, yellow metal, so-called spar ring, smooth, rail on the outside rounded, solder joint; stpl. 'PATENT - P O HELLSUND - A'. Outer diam. 2.3 cm, width 0.5 cm. [addition in pencil] P.O. Hellsund , ARboga (1860-1873).

G. 5/12 1966 Mrs. Birgitta Krebs, Stockholm."



Catalog card:

Ring, so-called sparring, yellow metal, Arboga. PO Hellsund, 1860-1873. D. outer 2.3 cm, D inner 1.7 cm, W. 0.5 cm.

Stpl: PATENT - P.O. HELLSUND - A.

Smooth ring, rail on the outside rounded. A solder joint.

Gift 2.12 1966 by wife Birgitta Krebs, née Billqvist. Artillerigatan 23, Stockholm Ö."


When the ring was acquired for the museum, it was cataloged as a spar ring, a ring of yellow metal that was used in everyday life instead of the gold wedding ring. However, the ring was originally made as a gout ring (see below), but may well have been used as a spar ring, as it was not usual for gout rings in particular to be used as spar rings.

It was in the 1860s that brass gout rings began to be produced, which were said to produce weak galvanic currents, which would relieve pain due to gout and rheumatism.

Perh Olof Hellsund took out a patent for a so-called gout ring "looked like 18 carat gold" according to ads. The rings were made in Arboga and sold all over the country. Searches among the Royal Library's digitally scanned daily newspapers yield many hits on advertisements from the 1860s onwards. According to "Svenkt silversmithing, Gold and silver stamps 1850-1912" (1995) by Kersti Holmquist, Hellsund stamped only during the period 1860-69 in Arboga, but Hellsund, who died in 1896, continued to make these rings for many years in Arboga. From the ads it can be deduced that he had a problem with pirated copies.

The term gout ring can also refer to an earring, used for the same medical purpose, which was mainly worn by men

/ Leif Wallin 2015-12-03

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Did a traveler from Sweden lose their luggage?
I’m now looking in the direction of Sweden to maybe identify these other items from the same time period, just a hunch. The dated buckles put everything to as late as 1873, but if I read correctly, these rings were only stamped from 1860-1869. That means that these items were dropped at least 4-13 years after this ring was made in Arboga, Sweden and found its way to the City of Brotherly Love.

 

[Bamasteve]

Awesome bunch of finds, congrats!

 

[oldmxrat]

That's a lot of good digs, congrats!