Strange lead ingot find.... is it old?

[the_mad_cladder]

I actually found this 6 weeks ago. I put it on top of a fence post and today I found that it had grown letters! Actually the rain washed away the mud to reveal the letters. My buddy said it might be old. It weighs maybe 5 lbs. and says “fed fry”. I also noticed when I chew on it my vision gets blurry... Buhahaha just kidding. I am seriously curious about this though. Any help is appreciated.


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[trdking]

Fry's Metals is a solder manufacturing company Now know as Alpha Fry. Not sure about FED FRY or any previous association of Fry metals beside ALPHA. It does look white so it has been in the ground a long time

 

[No gold in NY]

Ya never know. i always wonder when I detect a chunk of lead. Many years ago there was a local story that a guy's row boat anchor turned out to be silver.

 

[the_mad_cladder]

Ya never know. i always wonder when I detect a chunk of lead. Many years ago there was a local story that a guy's row boat anchor turned out to be silver.

Wow, my luck I would have got it hung up on a log. I’ve lost a more anchors than I care to admit.

 

[the_mad_cladder]

Fry's Metals is a solder manufacturing company Now know as Alpha Fry. Not sure about FED FRY or any previous association of Fry metals beside ALPHA. It does look white so it has been in the ground a long time

Yeah it looks like it’s got a little age. Thanks for the info.

 

[A2coins]

cool piece its old

 

[sandchip]

These normally came in fours connected by the teats on the side so you could bend and break 'em apart and put one in the pot for melting. Yours does look like an early one. Cool find that I bet hollered out when you swung over it!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Interesting relic find!

 

[the_mad_cladder]

These normally came in fours connected by the teats on the side so you could bend and break 'em apart and put one in the pot for melting. Yours does look like an early one. Cool find that I bet hollered out when you swung over it!

Oh yeah, the xp screamed over this thing. I don’t usually dig every signal so it musta just sounded odd to me, can’t recall.
I was wondering about the teats, thanks for the info.

 

[Whyme]

That's a cool big piece of lead! Congrats!

 

[Inspector]

cool relic, congrats on the find

 

[sandchip]

Finally got around to taking pictures of one that was in my haul from a garage cleanout a few months back. See http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/582042-express-karma.html

I figure that he used these when casting his own bullets. Your "FED FRY" example looks way older than this one for sure.