The relics of a drunken gold-miner 1864

[tinpan]

Hi all went camping this week-end and 2 spent todays over at the historic goldrush town of Castlemaine.Heres a link to give a bit of history of the town of castlemaine.

http://www.castlemaine.org/

Well i spent may hours hunting but managed a couple of keepers. Dutch gin bottle [1860] and a wine token 1864 Butterworth of castlemaine .Small town tokens are hard to come by i,m so real happy

Oher finds include a once silverplated fob chain and a copper[pressed] lion head with a ring threw its nose.The relic is only about 2 inches long and far to small to be a door knocker. Any ideas would be help.

Starting to warm up and i feel the heat will not be far away.Heres a couple pics

tinpan

 

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[tinpan]

i used to have a foot locker from late 1800s early2900s it had the same lion head w ring in nose as a decorative lid peice

Nice refered to as blanket box that sat at the end of a cast bed frame in late victorian era


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[tinpan]

Love that token. Now that's the kind of bottle Gypsy and I were looking for in the creek bed at the CTH2.

RR

Hope you girls had a good time on the Chiz trail.Gypsy was looking forward to the trip.I hope you pushed her into the water

tinpan

 

[crazyjarhead]

Thats a cool old bottle thats long been dry

 

[PBK]

Nice token!

http://www.australianbanknotes.com.au/Coin-web/aust/earlyaus/tokens/bu591ptk.htm

 

[Detectingfreak]

Love the bottle and the token!

 

[allen]

lots of nice finds tinpan...

 

[tsgman]

Great finds Tin, I really like that Gin bottle and token, congrats!