Baggins
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Well, since being on the road all summer, I have not had a chance to hunt.....I got back in town last Sunday, and today I was able to get out for about 2 hours...I headed down to one of my hunting sites, that used to have houses that the railroad workers lived in back in the late 1800s...This is the same lot where I found the dog tag from 1898 last summer....Well today I got down there and was hunting for about 30 mins when I dug up what appeared to be a bullet cartridge...I stuck it in my bag and continued hunting...I found a part to an aluminum comb, (found a brass one last summer) and some pennies, nothing too old there....and a bent piece of metal that looked as if it could be a tag....After getting home and doing some cleaning, the cartridge turned out to be a rimfire with a U stamped on it...This was my first rimfire! So I tried looking it up on the net, but couldn't really find one that matched...It looks a bit small for even a "short" 22 casing...maybe someone here can help? Any idea as to age? I then went to cleaning the tag, and once cleaned, I could make out some writing on it...I carefully tried to straighten it out enough to be able to read it, and this is what I can make out...It seems to have been hand stamped S.W. Williams on the top and directly under that in smaller letters is stamped Colored, and under that in bigger letters again is W.O.W, and under that the number 788, again small, and then under that is Terrell,....What could this be? Is it a baggage tag, a worker tag, or what? Any idea as to age? This is my first "baggage tag" so I was pretty excited...Any and all help appreciated! Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.
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