Got two items today - need help

[GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va]

ken and i hit the woods today, lots of shotgun shells and 22's...............

we both found two tags of some type

both are attached for i.d. help please

thanks

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[GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va]

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[fyrffytr1]

First tag may be a baggage tag. Bottom piece looks like a part of an oil lamp that would adjust the wick. I don't have any idea on the second tag.

 

[Jim West Pa]

n/t

 

[Jim West Pa]

is a tool tag.In a shop setting, a worker would go to the tool room and
when he removed the tool he needed he would leave that tag in it's
place so all would know who had that tool.
The number is the workers ID number and often times, it was his pay roll number also.
If the tool didn't show back up, the number was used to ID the worker and charge him for a tool replacement.

Tags without names and only numbers are many times either
cow ear tags, or more often, a miners' payroll number.
A miner would fill a cart with coal, send the cart out of the mine
with his tag hangin on the cart. (they were often paid by the cart)
That way, they knew who filled that particular cart and
could then pay him for it.

 

[johnnybegood]

Well i think its a coin..Portuguese coins had an X on them.I think french coins also had an X on them.
The string hole is the old way of carrying them..
John

 

[Roland58]

I pulled one from a torn down house built in the '30's. The tag I got is 1 3/6" diameter with a 5/16" round hole 1/8" inside the edge. Below the hole it is stamped with 12 and under that is 3133, I was thinking more along the lines of a gas or water meter number tag. I seems to be bronze, I know it is not copper or brass. Only other finds were to zincolns and a '41 wheatie, oh yeah, and a small brown bottle with what looks like watermelon seeds in it. Something a little more exotic and profitable would have been better......you know like say mangos or cheese. I've never had much luck growing cheese.

 

[dmitchstevens]

are u sure you know they watermelon seeds for positive sure. They may be chronic. Plant em see what they look like and post a pic on here and we can help u identify them.

 

[Roland58]

are u sure you know they watermelon seeds for positive sure. They may be chronic. Plant em see what they look like and post a pic on here and we can help u identify them.

Well, pretty sure. They were apparently well sealed in this bottle, although, it would not have been long before the cap rusted through. I only poured out a few of the seeds, the bottle is almost full. What do you mean by "chronic?" Here are the pics:

 

[Bell]

Lol yah I don't think that's the chronic he speaks of. I agree I see a wick adjuster from a lamp and a tool tag, but the final item looks to me like it might be a Spanish colonial quarter reale, although its hard to say for sure in the condition from the photos. Most of them were holed like that, and maybe I'm crazy but I feel like I can see the design peaking through that corrosion.

 

[Bell]

And does it say 1688 on the bottom?

 

[SilverSeeker247]

Maybe try using a piece of paper and a pencil/crayon and make a light rubbing of the faded coin. I had to do that for a 1916 Belgium 10 cent coin that i found earlier this year in a parkway near the street. The coin was made out of zinc i think.