Vintage fish hooks?

[Rgk50]

Location above river, looks to be 1860s or so?

 

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[jeff of pa]

Cool ! Long time since I detected Hooks

 

[yodi]

The big one looks like an octopus style hook (the eye faces back and the bite of the hook is off set to the side.) Probably not that old, but i could be wrong.

 

[releventchair]

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Location above river, looks to be 1860s or so?

"Spade" style hooks are tied using a snell. Still in use today in some situations.

 

[Rgk50]

other items pulled from same location, civil war military buttons, Jesuit trade button, round balls

 

[releventchair]

other items pulled from same location, civil war military buttons, Jesuit trade button, round balls

Quite a site there. No way for me to date your hooks.
Some had touch marks from manufacturer. Limeric styled with spade ends too, were selling from commercial manufacturing in the 1800's so had distribution for sure.
Others were made by multiple people.Here's some samples of some markings and some recovered hooks just for fun....

Ronn Lucas Sr

 

[stefen]

other items pulled from same location, civil war military buttons, Jesuit trade button, round balls

Just as a comment...we need to remember that the CW was historically a limited time overlap and not everything found pertains to that period.

The hooks appear to be in too good of a condition to be 150 years old...

 

[Rgk50]

Thanks much for the "clinic" on vintage hooks, amazing,will definitely give me a more valid background to analyze my hooks