Maybe Frank was 18 years old and Jessie was 12?![]()
Maybe Frank was 18 years old and Jessie was 12?![]()
I agree.
I would x-ray, if I could, just to see.
Could you imagine Frank & Jesse walking into a Jeweler & Picking out a Memorial Piece
to Commemorate their Brotherhood ? or even walking into a Black Smith to buy an Item,
And say, "OH yea ! We want our names Together on it"
I Don't even think a Birthday Card to their Mother would have said from Frank & Jesse
I meant husband Frank and wife Jessie.
Definitely didn’t come from a jeweler.
I doubt anyone was collecting spent lead bullets, never mind enough to make an ingot that big.
Fascinating item!
Judging from its appearance I don't think it's pure lead, but rather made from some sort of "white metal", "pot metal", or Babbitt bearing metal alloy. The spalled-out corroded divots in the surface make me think it's a harder alloy, maybe containing Zinc, as pure lead doesn't usually spall like that.
I can't think of any practical purpose for such an item aside from being used as a doorstop wedge. If made with a harder alloy or molten hodgepodge and used on an old-school pine or bare floor (softer surfaces) I could imagine the embossing holding up to the abuse much better than pure lead embossed doorstops would.
Yeah they would have to be some sort of treasure hunter or history buff... or even a metal detectorist to "collect bullets"...
:P
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