Colonial Powder Flask Flow Regulator Button!!!!!!!

[FoundInNC]

This evening I hunted a site that has given me an assortment of Colonial and Pre Civil War relics in the past, but it is starting to dry up. The ground is starting to dry up too, making digging hard with an old worn lesche, especially with this hot spell here in NC. I found one item that I considered to be "old" tonight. I threw it up on the ID section, and put my idea of what I thought it was on the description, and low and behold, I identified it myself haha! Check it out, pretty unique find! Beats digging a flat button, but I still hope to find some colonial silver there. Thanks for looking!

My ID post:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/w...-item-dug-alongside-flat-buttons-no-clue.html

Old T-net post by member Monkey Boy (did he bury this on my site lol)

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/146333-colonial-button-powder-flask-id-ed.html

Thanks for looking friends!

 

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[kuger]

Not sure Those necesaarily date to Colonal times?.........I also beleive they were used more on shot flasks....shotgun shot

Great find though!!!

 

[CC Hunter]

Kuger is correct.

These lever actuators are in fact 19th Century, and from shot flasks. Machine made rolled stamped brass powder flasks, the brass tops and pour spouts, as well as the brass parts for the shot flasks, primarily came into widespread use with mass production techniques following the Industrial Revolution. Quite often, these shot flasks, for carrying the lead shot, were made of heavy leather with embossed designs. The few brass parts such as these lever actuators and spouts, are often all that remain to be found by metal detectors.

Colonial Relic Hunting has been my forte for a number of years, having specialized in excavating many Revolutionary War sites. During the 18th Century most items were individually handmade, and few are consistently uniform as we see with machine made items of subsequent centuries.


CC Hunter

 

[kuger]

Thanks CC....I have that same one in my collection as well

 

[HomeGuardDan]

agreed with CC