Skrimpy
Bronze Member
Two "What is it"s...item and site
Went out to a site Shootncoin and I frequent yesterday. I've posted about it a couple times before. Late 1600s-early 1900s mill. Changed hands several times, was at one time grist mill, saw mill, textile mill and probably any other mill you can think of. Shootncoin found this neat lead button looking thing. I think maybe a wax seal press (is that what they are called?). Anyone got any ideas?
One other question maybe some of you can help us with. We've been to this site maybe 10-15 times now. The first maybe two times we got a couple of coins. If I remember correctly, one seated dime, two flying eagles, two indians and a V nickel. Since then only modern coins comparably. 1949 quarter, and several Lincolns. The mill closed down before 1949 and my guess is this quarter was dropped by a hunter (there are bullet shells everywhere). My problem is this. We KILL buttons there. I think between the two of us we've found probably 100 buttons. One or two military, but mostly civilian. Our guess is that this was a textile mill and that is why there are so many but...why the lack of coins? We don't suspect this place has been picked over because we just keep finding the buttons (and they ring up like copper pennies). It's gotten to the point where we leave there with maybe 5-10 buttons each. Any of you got any ideas? Were people doing business with the mill just really careful with their money? Or do we just stink at this?
Went out to a site Shootncoin and I frequent yesterday. I've posted about it a couple times before. Late 1600s-early 1900s mill. Changed hands several times, was at one time grist mill, saw mill, textile mill and probably any other mill you can think of. Shootncoin found this neat lead button looking thing. I think maybe a wax seal press (is that what they are called?). Anyone got any ideas?
One other question maybe some of you can help us with. We've been to this site maybe 10-15 times now. The first maybe two times we got a couple of coins. If I remember correctly, one seated dime, two flying eagles, two indians and a V nickel. Since then only modern coins comparably. 1949 quarter, and several Lincolns. The mill closed down before 1949 and my guess is this quarter was dropped by a hunter (there are bullet shells everywhere). My problem is this. We KILL buttons there. I think between the two of us we've found probably 100 buttons. One or two military, but mostly civilian. Our guess is that this was a textile mill and that is why there are so many but...why the lack of coins? We don't suspect this place has been picked over because we just keep finding the buttons (and they ring up like copper pennies). It's gotten to the point where we leave there with maybe 5-10 buttons each. Any of you got any ideas? Were people doing business with the mill just really careful with their money? Or do we just stink at this?
