Sweet Indian!

[Bell-Two]

Diane and I were invited by a friend to do a small group hunt, our sites were a cornfield, bean field and two old houses. The finds for us were not many but Diane made an interesting find and an outstanding find. I got a first for me so it was a good day hunting with some new friends.

We started out in a cornfield and Diane made her interesting find here. It was a brass halter plate that had a horses name on it. Some research shown that this horse Hailstorm Hanover won twenty trotting races and that he was a product of the famous Hanover Shoe Farm breeding stables, here is a picture showing how the name plate would have been attached.





The bean field did not give up anything worth mentioning so we went to an old house and there is where Diane made the best find of the hunt. She dug a lovely 1871 Indian Head which is fourth smallest mintage after the 1877, 1908-S and 1909-S. A very tough date to find and in EF condition!





We then moved on to another house where I made a couple of interesting finds, a change purse frame…alas no change…no purse! And a first for me a bale/bag seal if anyone knows how to date or ID these types of seals please let me know.

 

[glenn3-88]

Man those are good finds. A lot of the time when I hunt I save things that the normal
person would not because of my age I can relate to them. At age 8 I use to fill the
fertilizer hopper for my daddy at the end of the corn row. He would drive the tractor
up to the tailgate and I would throw the bag on the side of the hopper and he would
cut the seal and throw it away at the end of the row. I have found some. That would
have been in 1960 and near the end of their use. However, the one you have is much
older than those were. The reason I say that is I have seen many on the different forums
and in the "old days" they were built like a Cadillac use to be. The ones toward the end
of their use were EXTREMELY thin tin and just kept the twine from unraveling. I definitely
would say pre-1950. Just my opinion.

 

[sube]

That's a beaut Tony got one last year the same shape sweet . sube