Pair of cap guns!

[Zee]

Got off work and didn't have long till dark, so decided to do a little bushwacking out back in the woods behind the house. Not much and nothing too special or old, but I found a couple interesting things!


I was pretty stoked when I pulled up the first cap gun, and amazed when I found another one 5 feet away. I swept the whole area vigorously thinking "come on number three...." Haha


I found a couple different tags, this one I was curious about, anyone know what it might be from? It says "R.D.FLOOD. REMER. MINN. SOO"
What I do know is: Remer, MN is a nearby town, and "SOO" I'm assuming refers to a nearby railroad that used to run north of here back in the day. So I'm assuming it has to do with the railroad.


Also found this tag, thought it was a dog tag at first. Says "V&R.L.CO" on the top line and "4016" in bold with the single letter "B" on bottom.

After about an hour of searching Google, found this was from The Virginia & Rainy Lake Co, which shut down in 1920 as far as I could tell, they were one of the first and biggest logging companies in Northern MN. Kinda cool. Could not find out what the tags purpose was....

Oh yeah, found another Tootsie Toy to add to my growing collection. Number 4 this summer.

 

[jewelerguy]

Dick Tracy cap guns. cool!

 

[surf]

I was pretty stoked when I pulled up the first cap gun, and amazed when I found another one 5 feet away.

Very cool finds, Zee,

Perhaps a duel with Blowtop.

 

[wheatfinder13]

Awesome tags, those things are old, you can post them in the tags/tokens forum, they might be able to get the value and age