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yard sale finds - 5/15/2007 9:19:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's some weird stuff I got at a recent yardsale.  Paid a whopping 75 cents for these three.  The sword/letter opener has NANNIE debossed on it and something else I can't quite make out.  There are oak leaves and acorns on the hilt and stars on the but end.  The one gun is cast iron the other is metal and wood and the trigger quard? moves.




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RE: yard sale finds - 5/15/2007 9:23:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Paid $2 for these lead soldiers.  I think the top four are WWI and didn't someone just dig up one like the bottom ones?  If I remember right someone said they might be confederate?  Looks like half their legs are blown off but really it's a running pose. Sorry, crappy picture.




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RE: yard sale finds - 5/16/2007 2:00:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Steve, Neat finds. Your right about the top four being WWI Doughboys but I think the others are Rough Riders from the Spanish American War. The wood and metal rifle looks like a Civil War carbine. The other rifel looks like some kind of military weapon with the bayonet broken off.

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RE: yard sale finds - 5/19/2007 12:50:12 AM   
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ORIGINAL: cobaltbot

Paid $2 for these lead soldiers.  I think the top four are WWI and didn't someone just dig up one like the bottom ones?  If I remember right someone said they might be confederate?  Looks like half their legs are blown off but really it's a running pose. Sorry, crappy picture.





My grandfather owned a mold for some soldiers very like those top ones. There was even an alternate mold to make lead boy scouts!

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