pcolaboy
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My 6 year old son and I were checking a sidewalk project in an old section of town (go figure) yesterday in the blistering 94 deg. heat with 70% humidity.
While I was finding nothing but assorted iron bits and pieces of junk with my Minelab Explorer, my son was busy collecting old porcelain, bottle fragments, etc. merely by brushing through the dirt. He then said, "Daddy...I found a somebody's boot!". Expecting to see a smelly, rotten boot left by a vagrant, I turned around to see my son holding this tiny little object that he had found using only his eyes and hands.
It's obviously modeled after a late 19th to early 20th century ladies boot and is made out of lead. The neck of the boot is hollow and is nearly pressed closed as you can see in the third photo.
My questions are:
1. Were there some sort of dolls back in the day that used lead shoes such as this?
2. What period do you think they were from?
The part of town these were found in routinely turn up relics from the late 1700's all the way to present day. My son seems to have a knack for eyeballing finds while we're all metal detecting. His best find with this method so far has been a gilded French cavalry button - guess I should pay more attention to his methods
.
Thanks in advance,
Pcola
While I was finding nothing but assorted iron bits and pieces of junk with my Minelab Explorer, my son was busy collecting old porcelain, bottle fragments, etc. merely by brushing through the dirt. He then said, "Daddy...I found a somebody's boot!". Expecting to see a smelly, rotten boot left by a vagrant, I turned around to see my son holding this tiny little object that he had found using only his eyes and hands.
It's obviously modeled after a late 19th to early 20th century ladies boot and is made out of lead. The neck of the boot is hollow and is nearly pressed closed as you can see in the third photo.
My questions are:
1. Were there some sort of dolls back in the day that used lead shoes such as this?
2. What period do you think they were from?
The part of town these were found in routinely turn up relics from the late 1700's all the way to present day. My son seems to have a knack for eyeballing finds while we're all metal detecting. His best find with this method so far has been a gilded French cavalry button - guess I should pay more attention to his methods
.Thanks in advance,
Pcola
