A few 19th century tools:cam:

[tabdog]

It's been cold and rainy around here the last couple of days. This morning it let up for a little while and I decided to do a little relic hunting.

I went to a site that has produced some very old relics for me I have hunted it with four different metal detectors and finds have been getting harder to find. Now I have a fifth metal detector to try out there. The site seemed to open up and share more relics than before. I couldn't stay long because the rain came back. But I did manage to find an old leather punch. ( Boy they don't make them like they used to. ) I have also found three chisels.

I think it's cool to clean these old tools up and just enjoy them as a hands on piece of our history.

Happy Holidays,

 

[Elton]

Lucky you !! I would rather find items like that than Silver coins any day. Great finds !!!!

 

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

leather making tools , somone was making wallets wallets = money get back thear he has a stash of silver coins and you must find it .

 

[tabdog]

The people who lost the leather punch weren't making many wallets. That area was used to fix wagons and harness assemblies which had a lot if leather items. They had a steam powered planner matcher to make flat timbers out of logs. I've found peices of that machine. First they split the logs and then they ran the timber through the planner matcher to give the timbers flat sides and consistent dimensions.

When the first settlers landed in central Arkansas, if they had looked down river they would have seen something like this.

As they walked up the bank of the river they may have seen this very rock.

Who knows but the settlers or their off-spring may have used some of these items I've found.

Mary Christmas,