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<p>[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 4487033, member: 16283"]Dig/Look for the old stuff-big blobby (smeared on top) applied lip,and a pit,depression (pontil mark) on the base-crooked and crude w/ mineralization and patina.1880's and before better- pre Civil War even better.Lots of you folks live in very old parts of the US (Civil War/Revolution & earlier) and some of you may have lived in your hometowns your entire life-ask your lifelong neighbors if you can probe & metal detect.Out here (West Coast) pretty new,pre 1860's settlements very tiny and scarce.If you've got to live thru snow & humidity make it work for with all that amazing wonderful history right where you live.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 4487033, member: 16283"]Dig/Look for the old stuff-big blobby (smeared on top) applied lip,and a pit,depression (pontil mark) on the base-crooked and crude w/ mineralization and patina.1880's and before better- pre Civil War even better.Lots of you folks live in very old parts of the US (Civil War/Revolution & earlier) and some of you may have lived in your hometowns your entire life-ask your lifelong neighbors if you can probe & metal detect.Out here (West Coast) pretty new,pre 1860's settlements very tiny and scarce.If you've got to live thru snow & humidity make it work for with all that amazing wonderful history right where you live.[/QUOTE]
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