Revolutionary site club hunt *update 1-19 Whiffle tree tip!!! not a flag topper

[carpetbagger]

Posting this a little late but a little over a week ago I held a club hunt on some land around an old battlesite. We seemed to locate a few good hotspots, one of which hikermike pulled a 1829 half dime, a Kings Mountain Military Academy button and some other nice finds. Another member found two police buttons and some flat buttons. I was so excited going back and forth looking at their finds that I was missing out on all the action. I found a few nice beauties to show off. I'm interested in the flag topper, found it about 8" and when i was cleaning it I seemed to notice I was pulling wood out of the bottom

Antique HENKLE & JOYCE HARDWARE COMPANY Knife " Pen Knife"
Made in Lincoln Nebraska U.S.A.
Order #HJHC2B

Vintage Henkle & Joyce Hardware Company "Pen knife". Great old knife made circa 1900-1934. Genuine jigged bone handles. Nickel silver bolsters and inlaid crest shield. Both blades have tang stamp. Main blade has nice long nail pull. Both blades are swedged toward point. Real nice solid old knife - a piece of Americana.
Specifications:
(Blade) Steel - Carbon Steel
Handle - Genuine Jigged Bone
Blade - Spear and Pen
Closed - 3-1/4"
Weight - 1.5 oz
Features:
Nickel Silver Bolsters and Crest Shield
Brass liners

Yeeah Finally a musket ball

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[carpetbagger]

Re: Revolutionary site club hunt

A rosette, cant see an image any ideas how to clean?

Ok at first i thought this was a jews harp but after looking at it i'm not so sure one of them has the number 3 on it?

An unidentifiable button without backing

A button? that shows KNIGHT MCINTOSH. Id anyone?

Looks like a lock cover off a small chest?

 

[carpetbagger]

Re: Revolutionary site club hunt

We've seen items similar to your "flag topper" which turned out to be a whiffle tree tip from an old wagon. I'll try to find a link to explain how they were used.
Update w/ link: http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,50379.0.html
The "jews harp" looking thingies are reeds out of an organ or related instrument. It still mystifies me why these turn up so often.
Hope this helps some.

 

[carpetbagger]

Re: Revolutionary site club hunt

Your reeds are good size... prolly from an organ. The number is a size or a position location I'm sure... PBK is fond of posting an interseting site about reed organs and instruments that illustrates a little more information. They some in many sizes, to include the tiny buggers you seldom see left in harmonica reed boards that are dug do often. Remember - those instruments were like teh Game-boys of an era...

Check this site: http://www.musical-museum.org/teachersframe.htm

 

[Gilligan]

Re: Revolutionary site club hunt

Great finds!

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Revolutionary site club hunt

Cleaning a blank rosette will only give you a blank clean rosette. Leave it, as it looks fine. We call them horse bosses/horse brasses/horse furniture.

 

[ModernMiner]

Re: Revolutionary site club hunt

WSC,
Some nice finds there. I like that flag topper piece. I don't see those pop up here too often.
Thanks for inviting me to your hunt. I wish I could have been there. Let me know when you might be having another.
Congrats,
MM

 

[topdog]

Re: Revolutionary site club hunt

Congrats to all of the members of your club hunt, very nice finds, thanks for sharing.

 

[carpetbagger]

Re: Revolutionary site club hunt

WSC,
Some nice finds there. I like that flag topper piece. I don't see those pop up here too often.
Thanks for inviting me to your hunt. I wish I could have been there. Let me know when you might be having another.
Congrats,
MM

Thanks MM I'll give ya a call soon enough. Hopefully we will both leave some kind of relics for eachother to find in our hot spots.

Congrats to all of the members of your club hunt, very nice finds, thanks for sharing.

Thanks Top dog I'm sure they will appreciate that. Check out our site http://www.scmetaldetectingclub.com/

 

[carpetbagger]

A whiffletree is a center-pivoting pole on a buggy or cart hitch, with a tip at each end to which the traces of the horse's harness are attached. At the turn of the century, you could buy a pair of these tips, silverplated no less, for about 50 cents. Yours probably won't fetch much more than that now, but the name alone makes it a neat conversation piece.

 

[ModernMiner]

Re: Revolutionary site club hunt *update 1-19 Whiffle tree tip!!! not a flag top

Very cool WSC.
Never seen one of those before. Great info.
I found a whiffle bat once.
Thanks,
MM

 

[Nana40]

Those are some GREAT relics, WSC! 8) Congrats!

Nana

 

[Gilligan]

A whiffletree is a center-pivoting pole on a buggy or cart hitch, with a tip at each end to which the traces of the horse's harness are attached. At the turn of the century, you could buy a pair of these tips, silverplated no less, for about 50 cents. Yours probably won't fetch much more than that now, but the name alone makes it a neat conversation piece.

Great information. I have found one of these also and thought it was a flag top. Thanks for giving us the correct information! Bryan

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

I knew I had found one a while back! It still has part of the pole in it!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Nice finds there! I used to wonder why the heck organ reeds were all over the place...as a musician, the word "organ" conjured up an image of a pipe organ or some large instrument. These organs were actually "squeeze boxes" or concertinas. They were similar to an accordion in the way they played, except they had no keys on them--only little push-buttons on each side. They were VERY popular in the Civil War Era.

Regards,


Buckleboy

 

[wyattrr]

Nice Relics and Pics...HH

 

[Bridge End Farm]

great discoveries you located