DIGGER27
In Memory Of
I thought his would be an interesting thread.
After reading Ron (CA)'s thread about the very rare slave tag he dug it got me thinking...
These, along with civil war relics are some of the most manufactured rippoffs out there...not to mention coins of all kinds and other things.
Look on EBay for those civil war belt buckles with a bullet halfway through it.
These have been sold to many a gullible fool out there that actually think they saved a life and are real, not just online but in regular auctions and antique stores all over the country but especially in the south.
Amazing that such a one in a million life saving occurrence had happened so many times.
Not one has ever been proven to be real so far.
Of course lots of other fake antiques out there too, as Barnum said there is a sucker born every minute.
There are different categories for items like these, reproductions, copies, fantasy items and out and out fakes and counterfeits.
The first three are usually marked in some way or advertised as not being real if that wasn't obvious already....the fake and counterfeit ones are the most interesting to me because they are not marked and made only to separate people from their money, sometimes lots of it, and is an actual crime to sell them.
In this thread I am interested in seeing what y'all have found and dug up regarding these type of targets.
I know many have, I have read posts about them especially the many coins.
Please take a minute to find yours and post them here.
They might not be real but they can be really interesting.
If anyone has ever dug an actual Henning nickel I would love to see a pic of one of those.
I will start.
Here is a Cob I dug up awhile ago.
Looked interesting, the word copy was a downer and I came to find out later that Kellyco threw one of these things into many of their free "valuable extras" packages.
Here is another coin copy, a wrecked up reale I believe
No word copy I can find but it isn't real at all.
Here is my favorite, an actual fake token with a great story behind it.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=208036&highlight=fantasy+token
There was no actual token ever issued by any saloon or cat house like this, they would never give away their most valuable commodity, time spent with one of their girls.
It is an out and out fake sold buy a lawyer con artist named Fred Mazzula who was a big collector of 1800's memorabilia...even if he had to steal them from original family owners.
He and his wife published many pamphlets about the old west, most info was either made up or copied from other public works and regurgitated.
These tokens he ordered by the ton and he aged them by wrapping them in newspapers and soaking them in vinegar.
He sold them in small stores and roadside carts to tourists for years for $10 each...nobody knows how many but a lot.
You can probably still find them in antique shops out west which is probably where mine came from and then brought back to Kansas and then lost.
After reading Ron (CA)'s thread about the very rare slave tag he dug it got me thinking...
These, along with civil war relics are some of the most manufactured rippoffs out there...not to mention coins of all kinds and other things.
Look on EBay for those civil war belt buckles with a bullet halfway through it.
These have been sold to many a gullible fool out there that actually think they saved a life and are real, not just online but in regular auctions and antique stores all over the country but especially in the south.
Amazing that such a one in a million life saving occurrence had happened so many times.
Not one has ever been proven to be real so far.
Of course lots of other fake antiques out there too, as Barnum said there is a sucker born every minute.
There are different categories for items like these, reproductions, copies, fantasy items and out and out fakes and counterfeits.
The first three are usually marked in some way or advertised as not being real if that wasn't obvious already....the fake and counterfeit ones are the most interesting to me because they are not marked and made only to separate people from their money, sometimes lots of it, and is an actual crime to sell them.
In this thread I am interested in seeing what y'all have found and dug up regarding these type of targets.
I know many have, I have read posts about them especially the many coins.
Please take a minute to find yours and post them here.
They might not be real but they can be really interesting.
If anyone has ever dug an actual Henning nickel I would love to see a pic of one of those.
I will start.
Here is a Cob I dug up awhile ago.
Looked interesting, the word copy was a downer and I came to find out later that Kellyco threw one of these things into many of their free "valuable extras" packages.
Here is another coin copy, a wrecked up reale I believe
No word copy I can find but it isn't real at all.
Here is my favorite, an actual fake token with a great story behind it.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=208036&highlight=fantasy+token
There was no actual token ever issued by any saloon or cat house like this, they would never give away their most valuable commodity, time spent with one of their girls.
It is an out and out fake sold buy a lawyer con artist named Fred Mazzula who was a big collector of 1800's memorabilia...even if he had to steal them from original family owners.
He and his wife published many pamphlets about the old west, most info was either made up or copied from other public works and regurgitated.
These tokens he ordered by the ton and he aged them by wrapping them in newspapers and soaking them in vinegar.
He sold them in small stores and roadside carts to tourists for years for $10 each...nobody knows how many but a lot.
You can probably still find them in antique shops out west which is probably where mine came from and then brought back to Kansas and then lost.
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