ID help for privy piece?

halfdime · Dec 7, 2009

I finished the second of (hopefully) many privies at our disposal and turned up what appears to be a lock. The best I can make out, it says, "Harvard 4 ever" but I'm not sure. It's brass, heavy and in need of more cleaning; can anyone confirm exactly what this is?

JerV3 · Dec 7, 2009

Pretty sure it's a lock

Have some similar one's. It might say 4 lever. I think I've seen this on locks. Looks to be about 100 yrs old or so. Man I could imagine that alot of the sites I hunt have some nice privies. I love digging bottles and relics to. Have done so at a few sites.

HH Jer

trikikiwi · Dec 7, 2009

That should say 4 Lever :icon_thumleft:

Cool find.

Mike

Whoops, beaten to the punch

halfdime · Dec 7, 2009

JerDfx said:
Pretty sure it's a lock

Have some similar one's. It might say 4 lever. I think I've seen this on locks. Looks to be about 100 yrs old or so. Man I could imagine that alot of the sites I hunt have some nice privies. I love digging bottles and relics to. Have done so at a few sites.

HH Jer

From the description of some of your sites, there have to be privies there; my first dig was probably the most exciting treasure hunt I've ever been on. You have to try it!

Kiros32 · Dec 8, 2009

Cool lock Henry! Was that a sifting find?

I should be able to hit the site one more time this weekend, then I will be done through Christmas. Looking forward to digging another 7 foot hole though!

halfdime · Dec 8, 2009

Kiros32 said:
Cool lock Henry! Was that a sifting find?

I should be able to hit the site one more time this weekend, then I will be done through Christmas. Looking forward to digging another 7 foot hole though!

I turned it up before it got to the sifter! Dress warm this weekend :wink: