✅ SOLVED Gumdrop-shaped doodad found in a sandbox at a tot lot

[WhiteTornado]

Found this today in the sandbox of a tot lot. It almost looks like a gumdrop, copper or brass colored, and has "67" on the bottom of the larger end. Any ideas? Some sort of weight?

 

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[Back-of-the-boat]

Bottom of a leg for furniture?

 

[G.I.B.]

I saw the title and thought, "You know cats like sandboxes, right?"

But this is something else, thankfully.

How much does it weigh?

 

[WhiteTornado]

I saw the title and thought, "You know cats like sandboxes, right?"

But this is something else, thankfully.

How much does it weigh?

LOL, nice . It weighs 14.4 grams/0.51 oz.

Back-of-the-boat: I wouldn't think it to be a foot from furniture, since it has the "67" stamped on that side and there is no obvious mark as to how it would have been attached. Good guess, though.

Here's another pic, shows little round indentations that go all the way around the small end.

 

[kcm]

Looks a lot like a poured button of copper. The size and shape are right for a small crucible. The stamp could be anything from being a measure of purity to being numbered as to when/where the ore came from, or even that it was smelted in '67. All guesses, of course.

 

[Bruce R]

Scale weight ?

 

[Bruce R]

Incidentally, that's not a gumdrop, it's a Rollo.

 

[WhiteTornado]

Looks a lot like a poured button of copper. The size and shape are right for a small crucible. The stamp could be anything from being a measure of purity to being numbered as to when/where the ore came from, or even that it was smelted in '67. All guesses, of course.

Maybe that and Bruce R's guess of it being a scale weight. The sides have vertical wear marks, like it was inserted into something and taken out over and over.

 

[WhiteTornado]

Gonna mark this one as solved. Now I'm hungry...

 

[kcm]

It's marked solved, but what is the definitive concession on this thing??

 

[DCMatt]

It's marked solved, but what is the definitive concession on this thing??

Troy nesting apothecary weight (smallest one in the set).

 

[cw0909]

DC solved it
so are those sets 100+ yrs old
WT go back and check the area, maybe the rest of the set is there

 

[Bruce R]

DC solved it
so are those sets 100+ yrs old
WT go back and check the area, maybe the rest of the set is there

And take your Rollos along for a snack.

 

[ivan salis]

who is dealing 1/2 oz bags of drugs at the playground?

 

[WhiteTornado]

Troy nesting apothecary weight (smallest one in the set).

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Wow, thanks! That has to be it. And this tot lot area isn't very old, 1970s at the oldest. I guess some kid was playing around with great-grandpa's heirlooms in the sandbox!

 

[Hughie]

Do I understand correctly, it's a piece from a check weight set used to calibrate old pharmaceutic scales? That's neat.

 

[ivan salis]

it also can be used by modern day drug dealers to weight out 1/2 oz bags of dope ...at play ground areas

 

[DCMatt]

Wow, thanks! That has to be it. And this tot lot area isn't very old, 1970s at the oldest. I guess some kid was playing around with great-grandpa's heirlooms in the sandbox!

WT - Could be lost by some kid... But twice I've found Civil War bullets in the mulch chips at recently built tot lots in NoVA. Unlikely they were lost by kids. So, as they say, "You never know what you'll find..."

Also, for the record, Bruce R solved this one. I just found a picture of it for confirmation.

DCMatt

 

[Bruce R]

WT - Could be lost by some kid... But twice I've found Civil War bullets in the mulch chips at recently built tot lots in NoVA. Unlikely they were lost by kids. So, as they say, "You never know what you'll find..."

Also, for the record, Bruce R solved this one. I just found a picture of it for confirmation.

DCMatt

How's about we share this one ? I just took a wild guess.

 

[kcm]

WT - Could be lost by some kid... But twice I've found Civil War bullets in the mulch chips at recently built tot lots in NoVA. Unlikely they were lost by kids. So, as they say, "You never know what you'll find..."

Also, for the record, Bruce R solved this one. I just found a picture of it for confirmation.

DCMatt

Simple explanation there - the bullets had been preserved all this time in the bark/wood of trees. As the trees were harvested and cut, some of the bullets would find their way into the tot lots.