Geologyhound
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I’ve been systematically combing an 1860’s home site as construction work continues to shift dirt around.
No old coins or tokens this time (one wheat), but I still found some items comparable in age to when the house was built. The intact half of shoe buckle is the first shoe buckle I have ever found. It appears to be silver plate over brass and says Eureka Patent Oct. 31, 1865.
The round item says O. Rice universal self sealing can lid patent applied for Cincinnati O 1855. Prior to this time, cans lids were soldered on. Someone else apparently won the popular patent for wax groove sealing lids within a year or so, which made Mr. Rice’s lid a short-lived version at the dawn of the modern canning age.
The melted glass bottle I thought was cool. Also, the Excelsior item is the front of an old style six lever padlock.
The tusk (talon, claw?) and tooth were freshly washed off by recent rain and easily visible. I have no idea what animal they might be from or how recent they might be. All of the darker topsoil had been scraped off, and these were sitting on top of the underlying red clay.
No old coins or tokens this time (one wheat), but I still found some items comparable in age to when the house was built. The intact half of shoe buckle is the first shoe buckle I have ever found. It appears to be silver plate over brass and says Eureka Patent Oct. 31, 1865.
The round item says O. Rice universal self sealing can lid patent applied for Cincinnati O 1855. Prior to this time, cans lids were soldered on. Someone else apparently won the popular patent for wax groove sealing lids within a year or so, which made Mr. Rice’s lid a short-lived version at the dawn of the modern canning age.
The melted glass bottle I thought was cool. Also, the Excelsior item is the front of an old style six lever padlock.
The tusk (talon, claw?) and tooth were freshly washed off by recent rain and easily visible. I have no idea what animal they might be from or how recent they might be. All of the darker topsoil had been scraped off, and these were sitting on top of the underlying red clay.
