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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bosko69, post: 4486494, member: 16283&quot;]Cheryl-Incredible catch ! You have an amazing eye ( hopefully a pair of them). With all the encrustation on that thing I never noticed it.Do you specialize in &#039;smalls&#039;,jewelry ? With all the degradation on this thing hopefully I&#039;ll&nbsp; be able to decode something,most likely with your help.</p><p>&nbsp; A State Historian in Sacramento posited it may have been sold to a Miner or Military Unit by an 1840&#039;-50&#039;s &#039;Freebooter&#039; during the Goldrush Era.Webster defines a Freebooter as a &#039;buccaneer,corsair,pirate,rover&#039;,but I think what he meant was some kind of a traveling itinerant salesman who hawked surplus goods in the mining areas-frying pans to belt buckles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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