pa-dirt_nc-sand
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Found this dime sized piece of tombac at a 1850s’ish farm site in W PA. Range up low, thought initially a small tombac button. But it is not really round and tapers in thickness. Obviously some carving on the surfaces took place.
I guess it could have been a large cuff sized or small shirt sized tombac button with the shank removed then smashed with a hammer and then carved? Or could it be some kind of bale seal? Or someone cut up their tombac butter knives to make game pieces? Leaf is tails? Starburst is heads?
Thoughts?
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