Old fish spears

[stewystarr]

Found these at an old homesite that borders a creek. The one on the right appears to be hand made. Any ideas as to age? These were found about 10 feet from each other.

 

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[Old River]

They look to be pretty old. No idea on the age. When I was younger I use frog gigs that looked like those. Nice finds. HH.....

 

[haybudden2]

Fish spear, eel gig, or frog gigs. All goo Id's
I would guess the one on the right to be
home made, maybe both.
A lot of these are found in the Northeast
dating between 1800-1900. These are still
bought in sporting good store today, but these
two look to be turn of the century.
Thats my guess, and I'm sticking to it.

Hay

 

[stewystarr]

Fish spear, eel gig, or frog gigs. All goo Id's
I would guess the one on the right to be
home made, maybe both.
A lot of these are found in the Northeast
dating between 1800-1900. These are still
bought in sporting good store today, but these
two look to be turn of the century.
Thats my guess, and I'm sticking to it.

Hay

That fits in the time frame of some of my other finds there. Found an old pinback patent june 12 1894 not far from these. There are several old sites real close with finds dating back to the early 1800's but only ever found 1 coin there so far ,1897 v nikle. No clad even.