treblehunter
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- Jun 18, 2013
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- Minelab Excalibur II
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Garrett pro pointer
XP Deus MI-6 pinpointer
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I found this in a Hayfield where I have found copper coins ranging in dates from 1723 to late 1800's, 1880's
95 % of the stuff found there is that old. Normally I would not try and date things to a site just because I normally find old to modern almost everywhere I hunt. I feel safe in saying this target is 1800's old The fat end looks broke off, I scraped with a knife at that spot and it looks like steel to me. For sure not brass or copper. I think personally we could rule out a pipe for smoking anything because it would br almost impossible to hold with your lips/teeth. The guy I was hunting with seems to know allot, self proclaimed expert 23 years knowledge. He might be I sure don't know. I'm saying gun barrel just because of the small end shape looks just like the Belgium boot pistol I found last year. He dismissed that idea in the field telling me right away it was a smoking devise. Today he said it's a part of a metal wax stamp. Sounds like that is possible, except I have not asked him how he came to that conclusion. He probably knows allot I'm just saying I don't know.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm going to google wax seals now, guess I should of started there, just figured I'd share my find also.
Brad
Almost forgot, on my Belgium boot pistol there was a makers mark on it. This target has no marks anywhere, I looked with a loop. It measures 2.5 inches long, 1/2 inch diameter on small end, 5/8's inches at large end at fattest point.
95 % of the stuff found there is that old. Normally I would not try and date things to a site just because I normally find old to modern almost everywhere I hunt. I feel safe in saying this target is 1800's old The fat end looks broke off, I scraped with a knife at that spot and it looks like steel to me. For sure not brass or copper. I think personally we could rule out a pipe for smoking anything because it would br almost impossible to hold with your lips/teeth. The guy I was hunting with seems to know allot, self proclaimed expert 23 years knowledge. He might be I sure don't know. I'm saying gun barrel just because of the small end shape looks just like the Belgium boot pistol I found last year. He dismissed that idea in the field telling me right away it was a smoking devise. Today he said it's a part of a metal wax stamp. Sounds like that is possible, except I have not asked him how he came to that conclusion. He probably knows allot I'm just saying I don't know.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm going to google wax seals now, guess I should of started there, just figured I'd share my find also.
Brad
Almost forgot, on my Belgium boot pistol there was a makers mark on it. This target has no marks anywhere, I looked with a loop. It measures 2.5 inches long, 1/2 inch diameter on small end, 5/8's inches at large end at fattest point.
