Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800s PHOTO INSIDE

[jonnyhawk]

Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

I found these under a home in Java, Virginia that was dated to 1800s. I am wondering what these are? They are wrapped in plastic of sort. Seems to be a fiberous like cardboard on one side and the other almost the consistency of a chalk board or some kind of pressed charcoal. Any thoughts?

 

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[Tuberale]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

If the broken piece foreground is the same as the pieces background, they could be molds. Looks one of them could have had a flange or hinge. Maybe lead mold or bullet mold, but I'm just guessing here.

 

[Monty]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

May be a mold of some kind? But I can't see it as a bullet mold. Monty

 

[timekiller]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

I'm going to say old battery cells.Might be from a old Delco plant as many were used back in the early 1900's and I've seen them alot around old home sites just like yours.
http://www.doctordelco.com/Dr._Delco/Delco-Light/Delco-Light.html

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

I'm going to say old battery cells.Might be from a old Delco plant as many were used back in the early 1900's and I've seen them alot around old home sites just like yours.
http://www.doctordelco.com/Dr._Delco/Delco-Light/Delco-Light.html

Thats something I would never of thought of, seems possible

 

[Dano Sverige]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

Yeah when i saw them i knew i'd found lots of them as a kid in the 70's when they were demolishing a lot of the old houses to make way for new ones..battery cells.Never really knew where exactly they came from,just they were some kind of battery cell.May have broken a few old batteries open and found them inside...it's been a long long time since then lol.

 

[traderoftreasures]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

looks like lye cakes for soap making. just a wild guess

 

[Roger Mn.]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

Rat poisen.

 

[bradyboy]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

I would be very careful with these things until you identify the contents in the center.
never know if theres a gun powder mix in the center, assuming these are molds
I would definately keep any sparks or open flames away from these
Brady

 

[timekiller]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE



In the 1920's the electronics of the "portable" radio became practical and the use of radios attractive. They were in general larger and heavier than portable radios of today. All sizes and combinations of Leclanche batteries were built to power these radios. Many of these batteries were stacks of flat, rectangular cells, (Figure 4), each consisting of a zinc piece (the anode), a coated paper separator to place between the zinc and the manganese-dioxide mixture, the mixture of manganese-dioxide ore, graphite and the usual Leclanche solution (an aqueous solution of ammonium-chloride salt and zinc-chloride salt). The zinc was painted with a conductive paint to act as the conductor of electrons on the manganese dioxide (cathode) side of the cell. The flat cells used the space of a battery box much more efficiently than round cells. These batteries allowed the use of radios, large and small, far from any electrical power line. The time in service of this and all similar batteries, flat or cylindrical, was greatly increased when a naturally occurring manganese-dioxide ore was discovered in the country of Ghana, Africa which performed much better in dry cells than manganese-dioxide ore used up to that time.

 

[Dano Sverige]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

Well done Timekiller...they may actually believe us now! lol.

 

[vayank54]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

I've dug a good number of those thing over the years and never knew what they were. Thanks johnny hawk for posting this and thank you time killer for the ID. I will sleep much easier now know this has been solved.

 

[timekiller]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

Well done Timekiller...they may actually believe us now! lol.

Take Care over there!
Pete,

I've dug a good number of those thing over the years and never knew what they were. Thanks johnny hawk for posting this and thank you time killer for the ID. I will sleep much easier now know this has been solved.

Nothing like a good night sleep! Glad to help! But you shouldn't let such things bother you so much.
Take Care vayank54!
Pete,

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

Thats a killer ID timekiller.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

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[kuger]

Re: Found under home in Virginia dating from the 1800's PHOTO INSIDE

I would be very careful with these things until you identify the contents in the center.
never know if theres a gun powder mix in the center, assuming these are molds
I would definately keep any sparks or open flames away from these
Brady

First great I.D Time killer

Second Brady.......why would there be gun powder in a mould