mike b
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- Sep 21, 2012
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- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
I got an offer Saturday night to detect and rummage through a late 1800's house(property) and barn. They are close family friends. Detecting, I found nothing. the house was taken down last week the barn is being demolished today. The barn was loaded with mostly1950's stuff and some earlier. A mostly storage barn. I have no room to take many things so if I saw anything good I would put it out back so somebody else had a chance to see items I thought were cool, and they were taking a lot as I left. I didn't have my phone or a camera, wish I had thought of that before I went. But I wanted to show a small item I found in a hard to see wooden box that was in the back of a draw. It contained gold Lieutenant bars, EMT badges/shields, an unopened roll of Garden state Parkway tokens, a cheap metal handle pocket knife.....and this Tie clasp with a pistol attached to it. You can cock the hammer back and pull the trigger and the hammer falls. I thought that was cool enough until I sent a picture to a friend and he told me it was a cap gun. A little oil later and I had it open. This thing fires 2mm "pinfired" caps at about $5 apiece. When I googled these things it turns out there are many different types and manufacturers prices from $20 to way way up. Mine is from the 1950's. I never knew these existed. There is a few YouTube videos but I didn't know how to upload one.
Remember to always keep your tie clasp pointed in a safe direction and treat it like its always loaded !
Remember to always keep your tie clasp pointed in a safe direction and treat it like its always loaded !
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