Lead seal I think

[Jason in TN]

Where is it from and what was it doing in a area I have been finding civil war bullets and buttons. Also any idea of what it was off of.

 

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[Montana Jim]

Statsfrokontrollen is German for

I agree that it's a lead seal...

 

[WolfmoonX]

Possible..... http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/baleseals.htm

 

[Michelle]

Good Job WolfmoonX

 

[jeff of pa]

Only Thing I find


Petersen, PN et al. (1963): Statsfrokontrollen. Frederiksberg, Copenhagen (2472)

So I believe it has something to do with Denmark

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geupuV66JF0RcBE8BXNyoA?p=Statsfrokontrollen&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv8-&x=wrt

 

[PBK]

Jeff's right: it's Danish, not German. The inscriptions mean something like "Checked by the Commonwealth" (literallly, "Commonwealth by the check") and "To Copenhagen."

 

[BuckleBoy]

I was almost there, PBK!!! You beat me by like, a minute or two. No such word in German. Danish. Correct.

 

[Montana Jim]

OOOfff... I was way off... I did find the same site as Jeff but kept on surfin'!

I removed my wrong and confussing post... WTG Jeff!

 

[Jason in TN]

Danish Seal in the mountains of TN in a civil war camp site. Man that is a strange find. Thanks every one for the replies. I wonder what this seal could have came off of.

 

[jeff of pa]

Danish Seal in the mountains of TN in a civil war camp site. Man that is a strange find. Thanks every one for the replies. I wonder what this seal could have came off of.

I agree Very Unusual.

A bit of Info I found.


Danish activity in America before the nineteenth-century includes Danes in the Revolutionary War, and travelers to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Lake Michigan. The period between 1800 and 1840 includes seamen, artisans and adventurers, but immigration in large numbers began in 1840, when the Mormon Danes arrived. While Norwegian emigration began in 1825 as a flight from religious persecution and was followed by a mass migration of rural folk, Denmark's laws were comparatively benign toward dissident sects and once the movement began in the mid-nineteenth-century it included both rural and urban emigrants. Indeed, religion was a relatively minor factor compared to the increase in the birth rate and the economic difficulties of a small country faced with a rapidly increasing population. Only Danish Mormons can be said to have emigrated for religious reasons, and theirs was not a flight from persecution so much as a gathering-in to "Zion" of co- religionists. Other Danish religious life in America was characterized by the pervasive influence of the Gruntvigian/Inner Mission schism, a phenomenon unique to the Danes, and by familiar religious symbols brought from Denmark. After 1850, non-Mormon
emigrates were leaving Denmark primarily for economic reasons.

 

[dugupfinds]

Danish Seal in the mountains of TN in a civil war camp site. Man that is a strange find. Thanks every one for the replies. I wonder what this seal could have came off of.

It sealed a cloth sack of trade goods, most likely corn for planting or other seed crops.

 

[Michelle]

Danish Seal in the mountains of TN in a civil war camp site. Man that is a strange find. Thanks every one for the replies. I wonder what this seal could have came off of.

Supply wagons loaded with supplies of corn...grain...etc

 

[Jason in TN]

Thanks