Found in a Football Field...What Are They?

[imafishingnutt]

these are slammers for playing marbles like the stealies.
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[BioProfessor]

We covered caps about 6 pages ago. They are sealed on both ends. No way to put on anything.

Daryl

 

[imafishingnutt]

ya know i been racking my brain on those seems ive seen them befor somewhere.
and Snap on tools comes to mind
they gave stuff like this out with tool sets,
they were in to stuff like Nascar and olympics and stuff as promotional gifts
and i could see these in a set of tools.
might be some thing to look into.
Rick

 

[piggman1]

ya know i been racking my brain on those seems ive seen them befor somewhere.
and Snap on tools comes to mind
they gave stuff like this out with tool sets,
they were in to stuff like Nascar and olympics and stuff as promotional gifts
and i could see these in a set of tools.
might be some thing to look into.
Rick

It just seems to me that if these were given as promo items here in the states, someone else would have seen them or have them. The shear number alone of people that have seen then, literally thousands, and the number of people and copanies contacted, over a hundred for certain, and to date no one has ever seen them before. For something I thought would be soooo simple to identify, they still remain as big a mystery today as they did from when I first found them.

 

[Ralphw]

pigman you look alot different when you are rested,, nice bike

 

[TN-Joe]

I have spent the last 4 days in my spare time reading this thread.
It's awsome.
I don't know what they are.
But I had to post..lol
Joe

 

[trixster]

I would head off to the local sports card shop and see if they have a clue.... just a thought

 

[piggman1]

Every sports shop in my area has been shown these and no one knows what they are, or what they are from.

 

[piggman1]

The ends are sealed with a copper plating that covers the whole thing. There are no seams where the ends connect to the body. They look like they were copper plated after they were assembled. The copper plating is about 1/2 the thickness of a piece of paper. Otherwise they are all one piece and do not come apart.

 

[Ryedale]

Do they Float? (not the open one of course)

 

[piggman1]

No they don't float

 

[garyf]

This thread began on June 14, 2007. The "things" were found on a football field before football season began. Football season is now over. Has anyone checked to see how the team did this year. Did they win? Did they lose? Did anyone check the school's lost and found department to see if anyone reported them missing?

What are those things, anyway?

 

[Diamond Spike]

Ok i've been reading and reading this thread and i know i've seen all these logo before and then it came to me i've seen them all at one time or another on McDonalds cups.

I can seen them in my head on the cup.

My other thoughts are used in sceen printing or for golf balls graphics.

just some other options

HH

DS.

 

[LadyDigger]

Here's a link that may help....regarding McDonald's and possibly these little brass things...from reading what Diamond Spike wrote....

http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/marketingtv/marketing/sponsorship/fwc2002.html

Maybe you could contact them....

 

[savant365]

I would think these would be too much of a choking hazard for McDonalds to give them out...but I could be wrong.

 

[Montana Jim]

I think if McDonalds was handing these out - we woulda' remembered it. Someone woulda' remembered it.

I hate this post.

Everyone pray with me... "Lord, make it stop... either reviel the mystery to one of us or make it dissapear (a cool post full of muscle cars and motorcycles would be awesome... ) Your will be done... Amen".

LMAO

 

[kybowhunter]

Just a thought... since this is a football / soccer field could those items be from the bottom of cleats ?

 

[piggman1]

Not cleats, and not McDonalds. Good guesses anyway.

 

[MD Dog]

neck bolts from some science experiment to create a super athelete gone horribly wrong.

 

[Shortstack]

Piggman-
I haven't read ALL of the posts so my question may have been asked already, but I'll ask anyway. Are the pictures oriented the same? Example: If you're looking at one side of the item and turn it over on the left / right axis, is the top of other figure "at the top" ? If so, I have another idea for what they may be.

The hex shape of the items may be to keep them oriented in an overall display picture / holder designed to be viewed from both sides. An example would be a display placard made of thin plastic with a large silkscreened sports picture as a main feature, surrounded by a ring of hex-shaped holes filled with these "pigg nuts". The hex shape would act to keep the "nuts" from turning in its position. They would form a "halo" around a central, major display.

Just another guess, but those hex flats must be necessary and used for some reason because making a round die for their manufacture would have been cheaper than making a hex shaped die.