The Farm Dump

[JOETHECROW]

Some interesting finds there....especially the ore. The cut plate glass with the nibbled edges may be from a candle lantern or something similar...Did you find anything else pontil era?

 

[ScottBSA]

The pontiled pieces are more than likely an Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. His patent medicine business was in Lowell, Mass. Interesting mix in the dump.
Scott

 

[Bottles r LEET]

Joe, this is the only other pontil bottle that I have ever found in the dump.

 

[Bottles r LEET]

Pontil, it's too bad it's broken. I kept it anyway though.

 

[JOETHECROW]

Hmm, so by that logic....1850's to 1950's...quite a span.

 

[Brains]

looks like an Ayer's cherry pectoral bottle- coollll.
Perhaps i can't tell from the picture, but that's quite a bullet casing, or at least a larger caliber. Someone got shot by a big bullet eh? I dug up a .30-30 case once, and at a ghost town in Colorado i found a bunch of old obsolete revolver rounds. They're fun to find, i always imagine that they're all there because a bunch of people got shot a long time ago, but i guess that's unlikely.
Ah, nice bottle mobile!

 

[surfaceone]

ORIGINAL: Bottles r LEET

An unfired bullet shell, a couple of stoppers, a piece of an oil lamp, a tiny little game piece, and some sort of cut piece of glass?

Hey Ryan,

From the Department of Useless Knowledge, that little guy that looks kinda like a Parcheesi piece, is actually a Collar Button.

The back side of your cartridge casing may give you further information as to whether it's an ABF (Already Been Fired [8D]), and/or possible manufacturer / dating information.

 

[Bottles r LEET]

Here it is surface. It doesn't appear to have been fired. Unfortunately, the collar button is cracked. Just my luck...

 

[druggistnut]

I believe that round was fired. It appears to be a rim fire, not center fire casing.
Bill

 

[kastoo]

I would take it home....

ORIGINAL: Bottles r LEET

Broken toy car.