Wooden Canteen

[fyrffytr1]

I picked this up at an estate sale Friday. Can anyone give me a time frame for it?

 

[Mackaydon]

It could be real or an 'authentic' replica.
Don.........

 

[Hawks88]

I like it. Nice find. Congrats sorry can’t help with the time period.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Mid 1800's. But, here's what I see. The hole shows wear, I think it was used a lot in it's day. The steel bands are hand forged, and uneven, and show appropriate age if it had been laying in the corner of a barn for 150 years. I don't believe it was ever buried. Some of those tension inserts are newer I think. A partial restore or repair, but I think it's mostly authentic. Very cool. Of course, that rawhide cord is new.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Thanks for the replies. I think it is missing a strap holder. There should be three if I figure right. If it isn't old whoever made it dd a very good job of making it look that way. It's hard to see but there is the letter J and a couple other marks that I can't decipher. It also looks like the it has been sectioned into qiuarters with the J being in one and the other symbols in another.

 

[diggummup]

Nice pick up. At least someone's trying to ID your's. I get one guy replying to my canteen thread and barely 200 views in 5 weeks.
No offense AARC, lol.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/579164-old-canteen-identification-needed.html

 

[dts52]

fyfrffytr1 and diggummup - one of the most knowledgable people I know regarding CW artifacts is Don Troiano. I think he's on the forum now and then. I had the blade to a "sword" that I dug up here in CT, convinced it was a Revolutionary War era artifact and was ready to frame it and display it until Don examined it and assured me it was some "half-adzed" relatively modern farming implement. Maybe I can still hang it (unless my wife puts it where she has threatened to put some of my other finds... you can guess where).
HH
dts

 

[Fullstock]

Nice, and it looks pretty good