I hope this isnt what I think...

[Litco2]

I hope this isn't what I think...

I dug a little in my backyard and I found this. Please tell me what this is...to me it looks like a grave marker date, but I hope not.

Here are 2 pics of the lipstick tube.

 

[duggap]

You haven't suspected your house of being haunted, have you?

 

[Litco2]

LOL No, but I do hear my name called when I am vacuuming

 

[DCMatt]

It looks pretty crude for a grave marker. Maybe somebody pouured concrete and scratched the date in it. I've seen that at plenty of houses.

And if it IS a grave marker... Who ya gonna call?

DCMatt

 

[diggummup]

Could be an old address marker or boundary marker or for a pet. Then again it could be a grave marker for a human. I guess you tried finding the missing pieces to it already? Here is a good little read concerning cement grave stones- A Grave Interest: What Do Cement Grave Markers Tell Us?

By the way, nice finds. Are the spoon and the lipstick tube sterling?

 

[Litco2]

The spoon is Rogers Bros...plated. The other thing I thought was maybe a perfume atomizer (you called it a lipstick tube). It is not stamped 925...it does have raised markings, not indented. I will take a pic and post.

 

[jeff of pa]

It looks pretty crude for a grave marker. Maybe somebody pouured concrete and scratched the date in it. I've seen that at plenty of houses.

And if it IS a grave marker... Who ya gonna call?

DCMatt

I agree someone used their finger (or stick) to put a date in wet Cement.
there is at least one old date on my sidewalk & maybe initials somewhere yet.
however

Considering the design, Possibly a corner stone.

But not a grave marker unless it was the Kids Frog

 

[BosnMate]

Welcome to T Net, you have some interesting finds. I see what looks like a cast iron WWI soldier shooting a water cooled machine gun, a terret, which is a rein guide on a driven horse,
a clay pipe in good condition, and best of all, a striker for a flint and steel fire set. First photo shows the location of the terret on the harness, and the second shows several flint and steel
strikers.

 

[Litco2]

I thought maybe the striker was a dresser drawer handle....how do we found out for sure?

 

[BosnMate]

To make sparks, it has to be steel, if it's brass or other soft metal, then you are no doubt right.

 

[Peyton Manning]

not a grave marker, but just the same don't dig too deep

 

[cw0909]

what is the thing,that looks like a bent over man, its next to the eye screw

 

[diggummup]

what is the thing,that looks like a bent over man, its next to the eye screw

Looks like a WW1 die cast soldier similar to this one-

Or what BosnMate said in reply number 8- "a cast iron WWI soldier shooting a water cooled machine gun"