How can you tell? Educate me!! [:)]
I paid $5 for the blue one.....I don't know what the Taylor flask cost, it was in a crate of other stuff purchased at auction.
My dad got the G.W./Gen. Taylor flask in a box of stuff in an auction, I bought the blue flask from an antique shop for $5. Anyone know anything about these?
Yep, tent rope tighteners! Some are from 1861, some are from 1908, they all look about the same. In 1908 there was a tent city here, housing troops before Ft. Knox was built. In 1861 the 1st Wisconsin Infantry was here for three weeks to assist in the building of Ft. Duffield here in West...
Found quite a few minnie balls, one US box plate, a spur, various brass belt buckles and other hardware. Since this was a working farm since 1909, all the fields have been plowed dozens of times, mixing stuff up so I cant tell age by depth. I've found CW bullets at 2" and 12". I've got lots of...
Thanks for the replies I'm going to keep at it. This is an interesting place. Our family has owned it since 1909. The army trained on it in 1908 and there was a civil war camp here for a month in 1861. You never know what you could pull out of the ground.
At this old home site there are two...
Hi, I am new here, and new to digging for bottles. I am an avid detectorist and have been a relic hunter for many years. But recently I've gotten interested in bottles.
I live on a farm close to Louisville KY and we have an old home site that was built in the early 1800's. A cistern that...