I not sure why I keep returning to this site. So far not so much as one old coin has surfaced (for me anyway). I guess in my mind it has so much potential, yet it gives up so little, but I have a difficult time letting it get the best of me :beat:
OK, on to what I believe is a Mission era item, but what is it ?
It appears to be copper, or a copper alloy and hand tooled. In some of the photos, you can see where the flower design was hand chased. It also appears to have been made from a sheet of flat copper, then tooled into its current form (you can see the seam in the 3rd photo). It's hollow, and has ribs or a screw form on the inside. As you can see it also has a hole punched through the base on each side, which I believe was used to pin it to whatever it was originally attached to. Best I can figure it was a cane tip or the tip of a staff (an umbrella tip has been suggested as well, but I can't see a fancy umbrella at this site during this time frame, but who knows).
I found this just a few feet from a old stone wall foundation recently exposed during an 18" demo scrape, and it was about 6" deeper then the scrape. Funny thing is when I dug it, I had dug so many darned rusted square nails, I thought it was another big one, and was just about to pitch it when I brushed some dirt off and saw the design
I also found a few other pieces of green copper and other bits and pieces, but nothing exciting or worth posting.
Anyone have any ideas ?
HH,
Brian
OK, on to what I believe is a Mission era item, but what is it ?
It appears to be copper, or a copper alloy and hand tooled. In some of the photos, you can see where the flower design was hand chased. It also appears to have been made from a sheet of flat copper, then tooled into its current form (you can see the seam in the 3rd photo). It's hollow, and has ribs or a screw form on the inside. As you can see it also has a hole punched through the base on each side, which I believe was used to pin it to whatever it was originally attached to. Best I can figure it was a cane tip or the tip of a staff (an umbrella tip has been suggested as well, but I can't see a fancy umbrella at this site during this time frame, but who knows).
I found this just a few feet from a old stone wall foundation recently exposed during an 18" demo scrape, and it was about 6" deeper then the scrape. Funny thing is when I dug it, I had dug so many darned rusted square nails, I thought it was another big one, and was just about to pitch it when I brushed some dirt off and saw the design
I also found a few other pieces of green copper and other bits and pieces, but nothing exciting or worth posting.Anyone have any ideas ?
HH,
Brian