Large copper stamp or seal .....

[OmgFathead]

Hey Yall, well we hit it hard again today after the rain. Where I live is known for the lumber mill and railway that sat on the river (about 1/4 mile down river from me) during the late 1800's to the early 1900's. I decided to just blindly meander through the woods swinging my 250. Well after 3 hours of dodging spiders bigger than my head and losing 2 quarts of blood to the mosquitoes I had only found 1 nail and 2 old turpentine pans. So I decided to locate my boys and head out of the woods and on the way out just as I was about to turn off the machine it sang to me in a high pitch so I looked at the screen and it was showing dollar at 4" so no way I was to let that go without digging. Well out of the hole came a huge, heavy and round chunk of something that was too dirty to identify so off to the house we went to clean it up. After a quick soak and a scrub with an old toothbrush this is what I found.

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Nice stamp Welcome

 

[teleman 2525]

dont know what it is but looks old and cool nice find it pays to give blood

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

I flipped the picture around for you.

It looks like a wax seal that would make a seal like this:

I can't find much about the company, but I did find a token on eBay Here:

http://auctions.mrwhy.com/product/?q=270570822123/lyman-ms-gulf-coast-lumber-co.-50-rarity-10-unique

Pensacola is 132 miles from Lyman MS. Interstate 10 runs through both, which would lead me to believe there is an affiliation of some type between the two.


Also found the following obit:

ANDRUS, Edward L. LCAP 9/10/1999
CROWLEY -- Funeral services for Edward L. Andrus, 86, will be at 4 p.m.
today, Sept. 10, from St. Michael Catholic Church.
The Rev. Fred Swinson will officiate. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery
under the direction of Geesey-Ferguson Funeral Home.
Visitation is from 8 a.m. in the funeral home. A rosary was recited
Thursday evening.
Mr. Andrus died at 7:51 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, 1999, in the Crowley
hospital.
He was a contractor for Duncan Lumber Co. in Crowley for many years. He
was the owner of the former Gulf Coast Lumber Co. until it was purchased
by Duncan Lumber. He was a World War II veteran of the Army Air Corps. He
was a member of American Legion Post 15 of Crowley.
Survivors include two daughters, Peggy Stefanski of Crowley and Mary
Lucille Sims of Lake Charles; one brother, Gerald Louis Andrus of New
Orleans; and five grandchildren.

 

[OmgFathead]

Neil, thank you very much for the info. I have been looking all night with no success with google. Thanks for the flip too didn't even think about that.
Well I just found, GULF COAST LUMBER CO v MILES I Dlv 206 Supreme Court of Alabama Oct 13 1921 and a few other references to the company dating back to 1906. I also found a company of the same name in Mobile Al. founded in 1940.
Looking on Ebay it seems that this is a piece to an old press kind of like what a notary would use.