Ace 250 relic hunt by default

[ojm bc]

No coins today, though the Ace found some interesting rusted metal... any guess what age the oil lamp could be? as you can see has two dials.
Thanks for looking found in a small trash pit. hh oj/bc

 

[Graw]

n/t

 

[cjw63]

Hay...that's pretty cool stuff there...I don't think I've ever seen a lamp piece with two wik rollers..HH!

 

[kODIAKCLUB]

I would be pumped with those finds. A watch, a key, and shoe buckles? I'd be happy

 

[oldranger]

Nice finds.. .ANY finds are good...

You done Good!!!

Ron

RLTW

 

[fongu]

I believe if you keep looking in that general area, something good will turn up. Those are nice finds anyway you look at it. I regret to say that I threw away some old belt buckles and shoe buckles when I first started, thinking at the time they had no value. Even if something doesn't have monetary value, historic value is just as important. I had found about 2 five gallon buckets worth of trash and was tired of sorting through it and moving it around in my shed and just dumped both buckets of stuff in the dumpster.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Lamp wick is from the thirties off an old coal oil lamp with a double wick. They were a big, tall lamp and really put out a bright light. I remember them well as a youngster. I grew up in the days of no electricity, running water, or plumbing, thunder mugs under the bed, wood and coal stoves to heat the house and cook on and we all survived quite well. People were healthier back then and heart attacks, heart trouble, cancer, etc. were never heard of.

Doctors came to your house any time of the day or night and charged about two bucks a visit or accepted whatever you had to pay them with. They had no fancy machines or tests and used their smarts to diagnose your problem - something that would be totally beyond these dumb arse doctors today who couldn't diagnose a nose bleed without some fancy machine and a technician to do it for them. One of the big killers was pneumonia and the flu as antibiotics hadn't been invented yet. They didn't come along until the forties and penecillin was the wonder drug of that age. One of my grandmothers died of pneumonia when my mom was only 13. Today they would have loaded her up with antibiotics and she would have been well in a day or two. One could buy a new car back then for about $400 and a new house for a couple of thousand. My how times have changed.

Bill