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On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Rachel Feit <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> It looks like some sort of cap for a bottle to me. I think the image on
> the artifact is upside-down on the first picture. If you were to turn the
> picture 180 degrees you can see that it looks like it is a bird, possibly a
> hummingbird, drinking from a trumpet flower, though the holes drilled into
> it have erased the head of the bird.
>
> Rachel Feit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Alexander Wayne Anthony
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 11:24 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Artifact ID
>
> Hi all,
>
> I’m hoping somebody can help me ID this artifact. It was recovered from a
> historic farmstead in Wisconsin dating between the 1850s-early 1900s. It is
> brass and not very flexible. The holes appear to be later punctures and not
> related to the manufacture of the artifact, maybe related to some sort of
> reuse.
>
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/958u3u2v7bnm30h/Discfront.JPG?dl=0
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/yermgbvm33gf8se/Discback.JPG?dl=0
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Alex Anthony
>
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