Pewter Eagle

[Gypsy Heart]

65 degrees today in Missouri and beautiful digging! Was able to get a short hunt in at an old homesite lot in a small town near here......started digging pottery and stoneware shards,my standard horseshoe find, a tiny cork bottle and then......out popped the eagle.....

 

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[ModernMiner]

Cool find Gypsy.
If you turn it over and take a picture of the bottom for us would that be the same a "flipping the bird"?
Congrats,
Doug

 

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[DD-777]

Cool find Gypsy.
If you turn it over and take a picture of the bottom for us would that be the same a "flipping the bird"?
Congrats,
Doug

Typical "Hoosier Boozer" humor...

Great find Gypsy! Glad to hear you had that wonderful weather. The wind finally stopped blowing it's a$$ off here this morning. Keep on swingin'...

 

[Old River]

I really like the eagle. Never seen one like it. Happy detecting.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Thanks everyone. Here is a pic of the Eagles butt...LOL....After many years of living in Wisconsin ,this digging in January is a dream come true....

The eagle was found about three hundred feet from the first log school house in the town I am hunting...there is a small church there now that was built in 1850
There is a small hole in the bottom,but no threads in it....no hallmark or any identifying mark on the bottom.....

The snow covered yard is my moms farm in Northern Wisconsin where we spent the holidays....Christmas morning I looked out the front window and twenty turkeys had gathered under the pines for breakfast

 

[Hill Billy]

Really like the Eagle Gypsy,thats a cool find.Good you can still get out, I think our last hunt for awhile was yesterday. HB

 

[River Rat]

Neat find, Gypsy Do you think it was attached to a small American flag at one time? That's what I'm thinking.

RR

 

[Iron Patch]

Neat find, Gypsy Do you think it was attached to a small American flag at one time? That's what I'm thinking.

RR

Nope, I think more like a pincushion. This Sewing Bird dates mid. 1800s.

 

[Don in SJ]

I think IP may have identified it, sure looks like it could have been used for the same thing! I was going to ask you Gypsy how much you missed the "nice" Wisconsin" winters and I can see you already commented on that! Best time of year to hunt is in winter and early spring if you live in an area that does not become a frozen tundra!

Don

 

[Gypsy Heart]

I would like to think it was a sewing bird...because that would make me happy ....but I dont think it is....most sewing birds have a open beak or tail in order to hold the material (like a third hand for the seamstress)
It has neither

 

[Brian in MA]

Cool looking eagle. That will look really nice in a display case.

65 degrees..... Man, I am soooooo jealous!!!

Congrats...

Brian in MA

 

[Pentico]

What a great find!
Congratulations on a great weather day hunt.

DN

 

[Cynangyl]

That is too cool Gyps! Boy I wish the weather here was that warm! I sure miss you guys!!

 

[Iron Patch]

I would like to think it was a sewing bird...because that would make me happy ....but I dont think it is....most sewing birds have a open beak or tail in order to hold the material (like a third hand for the seamstress)
It has neither

If you google image search you will see the majority do not have a beak which opens to hold material.

 

[Burdie]

UUh Gypsy it is not legal to capture eagles please send to me so I can release it. Congrats on your find. It killed me to not be able to hunt in that great weather we had yesterday. Wind blowing hard today and 23 degrees.

Burdie

 

[Gypsy Heart]

I would like to think it was a sewing bird...because that would make me happy ....but I dont think it is....most sewing birds have a open beak or tail in order to hold the material (like a third hand for the seamstress)
It has neither

If you google image search you will see the majority do not have a beak which opens to hold material.

Thanks IP...I really wish I could say I think it is one....but all the sewing birds I see on google...have a tail that when pinched together opens the beak to clasp the,material...
I dont see what the point of having a sewing bird would be if its tail or beak didnt grasp the material....

 

[allen]

way to go on that nice eagle...

 

[tymcmurray]

Still a beautiful find!

 

[Juanmoretime]

Nice find gypsy! That winter morning pic made me want to go back and get in bed and warm up!!!

 

[kibitzr]

Neat find , WTG

 

[mlhudson]

VERY NICE EAGLE YOU FOUND THERE , KEEPA DIGGIN


M L HUDSON