Tags, Horseshoe & Hollywood bottle

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Beautiful morning at my new site. I really should wait until this winter for the weeds to die off and become brittle, but sites are slow for me currently, so battling the 6-8' weeds and burrs. Managed to get a handful of relics. 2 dated tags 1951 & 1926, and a miners tag. Love it when they have the name of the mine. The stop sign shapes thing I think is a compact. The wheel shapes thing, I believe, is part of a pocket watch, sort of cool Roman numerals. Wheat number 133, ratio silver to wheat now 37:133.

Found my second intact horseshoe, Did electrolysis over night. Came out pretty good. Any horseshoe experts out there that provide an ID/era?

Also a surface find. I always say you can't have enough shoe whitener.

Good luck out there!

 

[sutphin]

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SHOE AND THE CAULKS ARE HUGE>

 

[trapperart]

Nice job under those conditions congrats

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the nice relic hunt!

Love the tags and horse shoe!

 

[scruggs]

Good hunt you had with some nice finds!

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SHOE AND THE CAULKS ARE HUGE>

Thx, I was really happy with how it came out. After drying a little bit of renaissance wax and good to go.

 

[vpnavy]

I pulled this from another TN thread - this is just one of the replies in the thread...

Solved: How do you date horseshoes? (Feb 27, 2012, 11:30 AM)​

The information that was provided was found in the book: Artifacts of Colonial America by Ivor Noel Hume. (Don't shoot the messenger-call the author!) As noted, dating horseshoes is difficult at best. As with any hand-made item, the maker has the liberty to make it as he/she wishes. A current gunmaker could easily produce a flintlock rifle with all the early fixtures, but it obviously would not be old. Same thing with an ancient spear/arrow point. All one can do is go with the professional studies that have been documented and make your best guess.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on some great relic finds. I like that bottle and all of the tags.