GB1
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the iron piece on the end has threads. it is slightly bigger than a quarter the back is blank. Thank you for your help,Gold Boy
how old is this U.S. tag and what it went to
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That's odd. The eye screw means that it was attached to something made of wood.
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Sorry I cant help either. cool relic tho
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No clue here either, but I'm trying to think why would you have a need for such a tag? To identify it as U.S. property, apparently.
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Date wise, stylistically it looks to date to WWI. 
As Tony already mentioned, it appears to originally have attached to a piece of wood.
If you knew the background history of the site where you found it, you could likely narrow down at least how it came to be lost there.
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As Tony already mentioned, it appears to originally have attached to a piece of wood.
If you knew the background history of the site where you found it, you could likely narrow down at least how it came to be lost there.
Dave
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Date wise, stylistically it looks to date to WWI.
As Tony already mentioned, it appears to originally have attached to a piece of wood.
If you knew the background history of the site where you found it, you could likely narrow down at least how it came to be lost there.
Dave
i have found stuff dating from the 1890's-1950's. there was three houses there that i know of and in the late 40's there was a road that went through there
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Goggle is not my friend today...
Anyway I'm left with only wild guessing.
You could look into (but Google might not help) Remount cowboys.
It could be a tag off a saddle. (?)
I met one of the last of them. What tales he told!
I don't know if they were allowed to keep their saddles when the group was disbanded.
If they were they would have traveled. But there was a station in Texas. (?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Remount_Service
Anyway I'm left with only wild guessing.
You could look into (but Google might not help) Remount cowboys.
It could be a tag off a saddle. (?)
I met one of the last of them. What tales he told!
I don't know if they were allowed to keep their saddles when the group was disbanded.
If they were they would have traveled. But there was a station in Texas. (?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Remount_Service
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Google isn't your friend anyway
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No idea what it is; but here my take on it.
All our Texas based ranches are on or near major cattle drive trails. As a kid I must have found a couple hundred of these tags. The way it was explained to me was that these US tags where nothing more than another way for ranchers to know when they got to the trail or an intersection trail. That the tags did not fade like the painted post did.
Then the old Mexican cowboy went on to say that he did not think that this is what they where intended for, but since so many trails cross the border that it was just another way and reminder to let cattle pushers from the south know this is now the US. He also said that likely the tags had a much better intention behind them, but us Tejanos can really screw up a good plan like putting our old boots on the fence post. He said that the US is greater than Texas, its just that Texas just does not know that yet.
You find this near the Sedalia trail? Maybe a smaller one near it.
You want to find a bunch more, go further west toward the Moonlight.
Thats my take on it. I am sure that is not what they are for by any means, but sure funny how the ones I knew of came off the trail. Our cowboys would put them on their hat tassel or saddle, sort of as a right, to let them city folk redneck trailer park folk know they where from the country and worked that trail.
All our Texas based ranches are on or near major cattle drive trails. As a kid I must have found a couple hundred of these tags. The way it was explained to me was that these US tags where nothing more than another way for ranchers to know when they got to the trail or an intersection trail. That the tags did not fade like the painted post did.
Then the old Mexican cowboy went on to say that he did not think that this is what they where intended for, but since so many trails cross the border that it was just another way and reminder to let cattle pushers from the south know this is now the US. He also said that likely the tags had a much better intention behind them, but us Tejanos can really screw up a good plan like putting our old boots on the fence post. He said that the US is greater than Texas, its just that Texas just does not know that yet.
You find this near the Sedalia trail? Maybe a smaller one near it.
You want to find a bunch more, go further west toward the Moonlight.
Thats my take on it. I am sure that is not what they are for by any means, but sure funny how the ones I knew of came off the trail. Our cowboys would put them on their hat tassel or saddle, sort of as a right, to let them city folk redneck trailer park folk know they where from the country and worked that trail.
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That screw was possibly added later? Why such a big hole? To place over a tree branch? Old livestock tags had large holes... Maybe it's not a tag at all, but some kind of measuring gauge (for ammo?)?
Cool find!
Cool find!
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