fishing47
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Morning few relics from yesterdays snow dig any ideas what they are?
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Morning few relics from yesterdays snow dig any ideas what they are?
duggap
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Your first item looks to be a drawer pull (guess), the second is likely to be the adjustment knob off an old lantern, and your third item appears to be a woman's fashion buckle.
hoser
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I agree with the drawer pull, and the buckle, but no idea about the round item. It almost looks like it has a hammered impression in it. None the less they are all very cool. Well done.
Not sure of age.
Trade weight see here like this:
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/858111
Trade weight see here like this:
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/858111
hoser
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Doug I do believe you nailed it right on the head. Well done my friend.
More than welcome.
I don't recognise it to be a UK type?
Scroll down this link:
http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/weights.htm
hoser
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WOW Doug that is so cool. I have never even heard of a trade weight. Learn something cool every day. Thanks.
WOW Doug that is so cool. I have never even heard of a trade weight. Learn something cool every day. Thanks.
This is a big lead trade weight!
fishing47
Full Member
Thank you
Thank you so much for helping me out with these finds everybody. What would they use trade weights for?
Thank you so much for helping me out with these finds everybody. What would they use trade weights for?
Dirt Diving D.J.
Elite Member
Wow Doug nice I.D. It makes sense considering Massachusetts is one of G.B. first successful colonies. I use Colchester's find I.D. for a lot of my old finds.
WOW Doug that is so cool. I have never even heard of a trade weight. Learn something cool every day. Thanks.
Several uses for trade weights.
Shops, markets, fairs, and where items are sold by weight.
Then you have coin weights where coins are weighed to see if they have been clipped of their precious metals (gold & silver) coincidentally coin clipping was punishable by death in medieval times!
Then you have what I call the farmers trade weights these are one offs and made of lead.
Then you have Apothecaries weights which I have yet to find.
"Apothecaries Weights were the weights which Pharmaceutical Chemists (Pharmacists) used exclusively until the late 1960’s."
Thank you.
E Hedberg
Junior Member
Item 1
The first item looks like a clapper for a bell
The first item looks like a clapper for a bell
