679 Cannonballs found

[threedawgs]

Have to agree on the ball mills. When I was younger and lived in Northern Manitoba, we had an iron ore mine there. We used to pick those up off the tracks. We used to find 1000's at a time. If I knew they would be worth anything would have collected them. Now this is only my 2 cents worth and by no means being negative towards you

 

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[Southcacalaky]

Outstanding find, HH, (Happy Hauling), Art...

 

[Yarrum]

Awesome find mate . Just proves once again that TREASURE can come in all shapes and sizes.
Thanks for posting.

HH

 

[GodOfCarrots]

If you ever want to sell one of these let me know! I'd be happy to take one off your hands!

 

[watercolor]

Geeze!. . . those are cool. Ever consider setting up a "grapeshot" stand at a farmer's market with all those?

watercolor

 

[Jeff G]

Wow...!!! that is very cool!!

 

[sfinder]

Geez...you could start your own war!

 

[Skrimpy]

Have to agree on the ball mills. When I was younger and lived in Northern Manitoba, we had an iron ore mine there. We used to pick those up off the tracks. We used to find 1000's at a time. If I knew they would be worth anything would have collected them. Now this is only my 2 cents worth and by no means being negative towards you

What was the final determination on these things? Mill balls or cannon balls? My guess is, what does it matter? If they are the same size anybody or their brother can claim them as cannon balls and flood the market. I have heard that the only cannon balls really worth something are verifiable ones found at battlesites or those that have the engraving in them identifying them as such. Which in the long run really sux for you but if you could get an expert in the field to say that they are cannon balls...woohoo!

 

[Montana Jim]

Still one of the most incredible finds I think... Any follow-up on this Abe?

Did you ever go back and get the rest?

Any news as to authenticity?

 

[BureFreak]

In one word...

Unbelievable.

 

[Dman]

That is a super find
Dman

 

[morgan70]

GREAT FIND ABE!
Go ahead and sell them as cannonballs. That's what your gut is telling you that they are, so you won't be knowingly misrepresenting anything. Just my $.02 and I want change
C.J.

 

[Superjonboy]

I would wonder what ever became of this story also.

 

[chong2]

what happened to old abe

 

[rmptr]

Well THAT was a fun treasure findin' story!

There's been stranger things than those old mill balls fired through cannons, I'm sure!
hh

 

[Urban Grund]

Great find!

 

[Montana Jim]

Ole Abe has not been online since July 2007.

 

[Bridge End Farm]

old topic but still an outstanding thing to see ty and congrats

 

[chong2]

maybe he ebay'd them all off as cannonballs and is a some carribean island he owns

 

[rmptr]

I had a buddy with an old pintle gun on his jeep... a 35mm film cannister fit perfect with a nice patch.
barrel was about 18" fun old days. I should build one...