Solved & Thanks

[McIntosh]

Solved & Thanks

SOLVED!




Lil background info:
Paper thin, won't stick to magnet, seems to have "gold" color in parts seen, appears to have been "handmade & hammered" and seems very old.

So WHO made it? Indian, Spanish?

Now where it came from>> about 2" depth

Just got unlimited access to a 10 acre section that has been recorded on a Spanish maps from as early as 1659. Also known STOPPING HERE over the century's, has been: Native Americans, Spanish Conquistadors, Wagon Trains, Stagecoach's, travelers & more. They all had no choice but to stop at this 10 acre spot. It was a main water issue (which dried up over 70 years ago).

This site is so "pristine" that we even found the following JUST LAYING ON TOP OF THE GROUND. So what's buried still?

1922 Colorado Tax token
1946 S/D Wheatie
1845 Franklin Products medicine bottle
1860 P & J Arnold Master Ink bottle (in pieces)
remnants of a pocket watch
LOT's of bullet casings (remember the Apaches?)

Anyone want to help hunt the place?

 

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[DigginThePast]

Re: Here's a fun one!

Flip up spout from a salt container.

 

[Tony in SC]

Re: Here's a fun one!

Flip up spout from a salt container.

Diggin got it. Fold the two "wings" up and you'll see the spout. Tony

 

[McIntosh]

Re: Here's a fun one!

The middle part is a "body" of the insect. It's shaped/made in all ways to be an insect. Now WHY & WHAT & WHO made it and why?

 

[DigginThePast]

Re: Here's a fun one!

The middle part is a "body" of the insect. It's shaped/made in all ways to be an insect. Now WHY & WHAT & WHO made it and why?

Do you have a container of salt in your house like the one I've pictured? Go open up the spout and you will see what we are talking about. It will look a little different as the method of fastening it has changed somewhat over the years. That is what you have.

 

[kurtma12]

Re: Here's a fun one!

yeah, those posters above got it. Here is an article on some insect art made from these spouts:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5473403_make-pin-salt-box-spout.html

Good luck with the site though, sounds like it could be incredible just from the surface finds. I'd be gridding that place off and scouring it

 

[McIntosh]

Re: Here's a fun one!

I'll agree that it looks similar in appearance, but why would it exactly resemble a "moth" in such bodily detail including contours? I'd like to see a salt top "out" of its container just to compare. I don't use salt so don't have one. Besides, what are salt tops made from? regular metal that a magnet would stick to? No magnet sticks to this one.

 

[DigginThePast]

Re: Here's a fun one!

Check out the link that kurtma12 posted.

Here are a few links from T-Net to read:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,288996.0.html
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,273836.0.html
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,20000.0.html

 

[McIntosh]

Re: Here's a fun one!

Well there it is folks!

Off of a salt container. MYSTERY SOLVED.

thanks to all

Now a question>>>> Is this from Civil War era or more modern?

 

[DigginThePast]

Re: Here's a fun one!

I don't think those spouts go back to the Civil War era but it still could be quite old. I'm posting a photo that shows that type of spout being used as early as 1914. I may get corrected but I think this photo illustrates some of the earliest spouts of this kind used.