Old fishing reel, home made silver ring, button, pewter, crotal bell

[Bodkin]

More recent things I found but haven't had time to post.
2 pieces of "Genuine Pewter"
Old fishing reel found near the pewter on the edge of a brook.
Found this home mead silver ring that was fashioned out of a 1942 US. Quarter. It had a little silver plate, although snapped off, I also found in the hole. It seems it had something attached to the prongs that were on it, maybe a stone or another coin, who knows.
Found this button directly out a building I work in. Always threatened to work this little chunk of woods and finally did. I still can't figure out why it was where I found it.
Ahhh... my little crotal bell. Love this thing!
Found all with my Equinox 800, park 2 setting, 6" coil (love this coil!). Thanks for looking.

 

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[Horst]

found a bell too but nt as fancy....congrats

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congrats on the nice relics!

 

[dirtlooter]

hey I loved it all, very cool

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Very nice haul!!

 

[Digger RJ]

Cool!! Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[digger dug]

that looks like an old pencil sharpener

 

[Rock22]

Great finds! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Aureus]

Great finds! Congratulations!

 

[Subterranean]

Great finds, congratulations! That coin ring is the most unusual one I have seen. Based on the length of the remaining prong, I suppose a large stone was once mounted there. Sub

 

[Bodkin]

that looks like an old pencil sharpener

That never even crossed my mind when doing a little research. Underneath I can see there is a disk separating the unit in two with the handle shank running through. I thought this would allow for the use of two different lines, one at a time of course. Also, there is that little "lock" lever which would keep the handle from going the other direction, can't really see why that would matter on a pencil sharpener? I don't know, you could be right though. I can't find a definite picture anywhere showing it either way. Good call. Thanks!

 

[Brendan75]

Hi, nice finds. Congrats

 

[Javadroid]

An excellent treasure hunt - love that button you pulled out. Congrats to ya mate!

 

[A2coins]

Lots of cool history you found well done

 

[Toecutter]

that looks like an old pencil sharpener

Was just watching this about the history of a pencil pointer and BOOM.....their it was....

 

[Bodkin]

Was just watching this about the history of a pencil pointer and BOOM.....their it was....

I would love to see what this is but all that shows up is a black blank screen. What is the title and site that you found "it" on? The reason I was thinking fishing reel was that it was on an adjoining brook that empties into a famous Atlantic salmon fishery about 100 yards away (not that they're here in the numbers of past). I imagine the salmon also came up the small brook back in the day. Thanks!

 

[IN DA HOLE]

It is not a fishing reel or a pencil sharpener. It is a retractable clothes line. Now you can hang your tighty whiteys out to dry.

Antique Retractable Clothesline by Handy Things Manufacturing Company - Antique Outings

 

[Joe-Dirt]

that looks like an old pencil sharpener

It looks like an old fashioned crank mail box

 

[Hawks88]

Nice finds. I like the button. Congrats

 

[Silver Tree Chaser]

How big are those pieces of pewter? How old? Looks great but all the better if the photo has something for scale.