maybe someone can help me identify this

[stacey1080]

ok so im new at this and to make it quick and simple i found a big hunk of metal with a tooth imprint and something else that looks funny ,beside it .it looks like a molted piece of silver very heavy but soft , but not sure why it would have a tooth imprint not the whole tooth , a molar at that . but we are at a place that is consistant with old 1900's memorabilia there is a huge hole full of old mason jars with the milk glass lids i found blue bottle out the yang . and an old hand pump but this is way stange .well here is a pic someone please tell me what i got here ,thanks stacey

hope its not to blurry if you need more detailed ones be glad to send them on , i also have this wierd gear thing that was next to it doubt it has anything to do with one another .[attachment 239475 photo-7.JPG]
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[taz42o]

Bottom item looks like a shotgun slug. Probably chewed by a grazing animal , horse maybe, cows swallow metal horses spit it out not sure about deer. Somtimes civil war bullets are found that were chewed by soilders. I think some of those were chewed by animals also but you will never convince a civil war bullet owner of that.

 

[Aarong81]

My dad claims it was a common practice for him to chew lead when he was a kid.

 

[Fabio]

I found quite a few of those thin brass gears myself. I wonder what they were used for...

 

[stacey1080]

thank guys well im not real sure either but did find out that it is silver and weighs alot to scared to clean it really ! but it is the size of a quarter and thick but im sure it was a bullet that hit something and then a cow chewed on it LOL . im convinced . I,m also gonna ask another question i have just started doing this and i have run across alot of buried wire next to trees i suspect it was probably a dead animal and the wire was to keep something from digging it up , and on another note i dug a hole 6ft deep and 6ft wide full of bottles and masons depression glass 98% broken when i got to the bottom of it all there were two desentagrated boots and an old hair comb a whole clay ink bottle and bones of some nature i did find a small bracelet silver as well it kinda freaked me out so i kicked everything back in a covered it up. now thinking it might be the remains or someone or something , my old man says they probably buried a goat and just decided to make that there trash pit LOL i hope so . an why would you burn trash and what nots right next to your water supply ? (the 1900's hand pump). sorry for the overload of questions but thanks for the replys.

 

[stacey1080]

and the gears my only idea would be old wooden clocks maybe since the wood is rotten the gears are the only thing left.

 

[dave5710]

I was thinking clock parts on the gears as well. The other piece looks to have several spoon shaped tabs? on the left side as she sits. There is a row of them across the front of the object. Maybe flower pedals? I wonder if it wasn't a piece of jewelry that got mangled or hammered by something or somebody.

 

[stacey1080]

its a shame if it was but i could kinda see that ! huh well i know silver was precious in the old days so maybe someone did hammer it down melt it or whatever and was gonna use it for bullets or ?

 

[Dodqe]

The tooth part does look ike a rose... I think you're onto something.
What's the diameter of the gear? Looks to me to be part of a hand-cranked winch.

 

[Jim West Pa]

n/t

 

[stacey1080]

it does look alot like a rose hummm. the diameter of the gear is the same as a quarter very small. im thinking pocket watch maybe since those were pretty common

 

[edjcox]

Boat winch gear...

 

[dave44]

Looks like a clock gear and a bullet, it has rifling on it so probably black powder.
I find alot of them, always hoping they are civil war because of the size.
Once a bullet gets a little older it starts to turn white, usually,, although I have found a few spencers that turned other colors.


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