small lead base

[DWA]

Any ideas what this is? Says *USA* NO* ----* can't make out the last part

 

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[Silver Searcher]

Looks like a lead bag seal....for seed.

SS

 

[DWA]

It has a small cup on other side

 

[Silver Searcher]

It has a small cup on other side

Bag seal for Tea then

SS

 

[duggap]

Those were also sometimes used on bales of wire to indicate the gage.

 

[DWA]

Seems to small for something like that...dug it at a confederate camp site alone with three buttons and 14 bullets

 

[duggap]

It could have been lost by the troops, I suppose. Would depend on what they were hauling. Point is they go back that far. I have one dated in the 1850s.

 

[DWA]

Wow! That's cool

 

[CRUSADER]

yeap lead bag/bale seal, these go back hundreds of years but 19th C is fine.