Never Found a No 14 Headstamp before...

[cambria09]

Hello All. As probably most of you, we find many head stamps in the areas we go. Btoots and I have found (100) or so where this one was dug...mostly common gauges w few No 10's. The site is an old wooded area that had a road and at least one 1900's home-site on it.

I know I have dug my share of head stamps over the years... even found a No 28 one time...but I have never seen a No 14.

Some diggers don't like finding head stamps but I keep 'em and enjoy finding 'em...they help date site activity, many times there is other good stuff nearby, and once in while you find an odd one like this No 14. Pretty sure it's pre-1911.

Anyway not a great find but I thought it might be of interest. Thanks for the view and Good Luck out there. C9

 

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[cambria09]

Looks like this one got dropped. The primer hasn't been struck. Very nice old brass head stamp in a rare gauge. Thanks for sharing it mate.

Hello Kurios1. You are welcome...yup a drop for sure. We seem to find a lot of them at this site...of the last (16) I dug there (4) were unstruck..

Thanks for the reply and Good Luck out there. C9

 

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[cambria09]

Okay, that's one RARE headstamp! Just went through mine and found ZERO No. 14 casings in the 608 I have saved. I separated them and here's my totals:

No. 10 (9), No. 12 (478), No. 16 (61), No. 20 (56), .410 (4)

Only found one pinfire casing, a No 12. Guess those are pretty rare as well. Here's a photo of all 608. Time to go to bed!

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Hello FBT. Now you got me wanting to sort mine too. I have 5 or 6-hundred of them also. Thanks for the reply and Good Luck out there. C9

 

[MrBlueSkyNM]

Thanks for sharing the link! I was just looking for Turtlefoot's website and was saddened to see it has been taken down.

Just did a search for headstamp data base and found this one (here is a link Shotgun) not as good as the one taken down but helps.

Here is a PDF that list the No. 14

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...p130-140.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2BkGbZgSVe_gB7mZgBKpi6

 

[sutphin]

THATS A COOL FIND

 

[civil_war22]

I need to check mine now