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  1. Steve(Can)

    Bullet ID

    Interesting article... Buffalo Cartridges of the American Frontier By Chuck Hawks https://www.chuckhawks.com/buffalo_cartridges.htm
  2. Steve(Can)

    Bullet ID

    50-90 Sharps? The .50-90 Sharps rifle cartridge is a black-powder cartridge that was introduced by Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company in 1872 as a buffalo hunting round. Bullet diameter was typically 0.512 inches (diameter. Bullets weighed from 335 to 700 grains...
  3. Steve(Can)

    Any help or suggestions appreciated

    The 1770-1775 British George III halfpenny is about the size of a US large cent. (posted above) The faint profile on your coin most closely resembles the bust on the 1774-1776 and 1781-1782 Irish halfpenny (below) Of interest, the Virginia Halfpenny, an official regal minting of the Irish...
  4. Steve(Can)

    Any help or suggestions appreciated

    George III, England Nice old copper, DigginDarty. Can you see anything on the back? Size?
  5. Steve(Can)

    Got my wings today, kinda!!

    Oh, I see how it is now, Ronstar, you post the nice stuff here and twisted chunks of rusted wire on the Whazit? :p
  6. Steve(Can)

    We've purchased another anti-spam module to stop the Russian, eastern european, chinese, etc group of hard core spammers...

    Any If you opened any of the links... Any of what links? Anytime you get a message from anyone here... On the forum Private Messaging, by email?
  7. Steve(Can)

    Help with button ID

    If these little treasures could speak, Dig2Deep, the stories they could tell! Oh, the year was 1778... (How I wish I was in sherbrooke now!)
  8. Steve(Can)

    Help with button ID

    Best match I can find to your button is a "napoleonic foot artillery button" which brings up plenty of near matches. Don't have a book covering french buttons of that period, which is what it might take to find an exact match. A very nice find Dig2Deep, and in fantastic shape. Beats me how it...
  9. Steve(Can)

    Help with button ID

    Don't believe so. During this period, American and French and British relations were pretty rocky all way 'round... mutual distrust, trade disruptions, infringements and embargoes, to the point of open naval battles between all three. Though war was not formally declared on France by America...
  10. Steve(Can)

    Help with button ID

    Hey Dig2Deep, beautiful button! Could not be a revolutionary war button... France did not become a republic (Republique Francaise) until 1792, after which time the USA and France had a falling out as allies. A few years later, during the war of 1812, France and the USA both fought against the...
  11. Steve(Can)

    Star shaped pin

    Believe what you have is a Rough Rider Reunion badge, BcWill, even though I am unable to find an exact match offhand. Check out this link, with "New Mexico Yellow enameled Cavalry Division 5th Corps badge with pinback intact." Does the back of your badge look like it had a similar attachment...
  12. Steve(Can)

    Star shaped pin

    You are on the right track, Boxcarwilly! Check this out.... a 1st Volunteer Cavalry "Rough Riders" medal.... Note the shape of the "star", the crossed sabers, letter style of the R's, and the 98 at the link below: http://www.wartimecollectables.com/rough-riders-medal.html
  13. Steve(Can)

    Large cent sized coin bust looking left

    Out of interest, a series of videos by a fellow copper plating cast lead bullets with great results. Some sort of similar copper plating process on a cast lead coin and then antiqued with sulfur and oil and such, it would make for a pretty convincing coin. Not sure how long plating would stand...
  14. Steve(Can)

    Large cent sized coin bust looking left

    Whoever punched the hole through near bent it in half. Do you suppose that was done to mark it as a counterfeit? Funny eh, at one time it was worth someone's time and effort to counterfeit a penny, ha! I have an old copper penny that was attributed to a blacksmith who was said to crank them out...
  15. Steve(Can)

    Large cent sized coin bust looking left

    With the head profile and the size, pretty sure it is a George II Half penny. A good link below that shows this colonial copper as well as counterfeits. On the same site, check out connecticut colonial coins that also shows a number of variants of the George II bust. Check out a few links about...
  16. Steve(Can)

    Large cent sized coin bust looking left

    George II Halfpenny early bust with varying degrees of wear... anything to see on the other side, boxcar?
  17. Steve(Can)

    Any idea how or why this was tied this way?

    Hey Ronstar... that's a pretty common way of tightening a strand of wire.... once a loop is secured, a steel rod, screw driver, the handle of a pair of pliers or any such thing is put through the two stands and wound around twisting the two strands around themselves and tightening the wire...
  18. Steve(Can)

    Tiny gear looking thingy

  19. Steve(Can)

    Age of copper bracelet ?

    No worries, Jim... an interesting find... don't ya just love it? ...you never know from hole to hole, what might come up shining. I am no expert, just a best guess, hopefully pointing in the right direction. Chances are that's what it is, 1960's, 70's... but.... considering how the movements in...
  20. Steve(Can)

    Age of copper bracelet ?

    Hey earthylypotluck, interesting find.... from what I can tell, think you are right, a bangle bracelet... the style of the design is modernistic, with influences of art nouveau/cubism/surrealism (as in Picasso/ nude descending stair case/noses sticking out of the sides of faces stuff, all...
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