I know what you mean. I find myself thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, but never go without the blessings of the...
I am sure it saw some troop movement, as it wasn't too far removed from the Valley Campaigns.
The original house on the property where this was dug was built in 1794 and saw occupation until the early1950s. There was a newer house on the...
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Yes, the pistol is a Model 1858 Remington I believe, with 5 balls still in the cylinder. The one buckle is a Knights of Maccabees buckle. [ATTACH]
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It looks like the ones I have seen from the mid-1800's, but the grinding marks on the finger loop is sorta unusual.
Motivated you say? What is that? A word no longer in my vocabulary.:(
Thanks! Yes, depending on the lighting, you can see ghosts of some lettering. If it ever stops raining here, I want to visit them in the darkness...
A dollar two ninety-eight plus tax and an old refrigerator door.
Thanks for the education. How old?
Well, they wound up in the cemetery.;)
I am working on a cemetery restoration project and two of the "gravestones" are made out of enameled tin. I have never seen that before and was...
Thank you all .. I appreciate your help.
It was kind of hard to tell due to the rust, but it was somewhere it this range the best /I could determine. [ATTACH]
It looked like it was blue originally. I painted it the combo color because blue is my grandson's favorite color and green is my granddaughters.
Wow .. that does look a lot like it. No marks that I could find, but it was quite rusted and pitted. Thank you for the photo and link.
I rescued it from a defunct playground back in November 2022. Finally finished the restoration on this today for my grandkids. Just curious how...
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