We found one of those...I think in the U. S. Grant Jr. summer home dump site (but cant trust my memory). THANKS for the ID! But How does one easily SEE thru those grooves/lines? Guess it wasn't super accurate.
The summer home was near a rail spur (Aloha Sta)...so near a rail line.
Also among the items were 2 Totally smashed shell casings! Finally it occurred to me. I bet the children put the casing on the rail to watch what would happen when the train ran over it! I couldn't figure out any other way for the casing to be SO flattened (no hammer marks).
I'm pretty sure the son collected the various shell casings (shot shells too) since there was a collection of over 100 handgun or shotgun casings of only 1 or 2 of each "brand" (name, like Climax, Arrow, Magic, etc.)...along with 107 rifle shells - of 5 makers, mostly Union Metallic Cart. Co....of 8 different firing pin marks.
Carol Serr
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It's a sighting to view the level of water of a boiler we have one collected
from a railroad logging site.
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Hi all,
We recently found an unusual glass artifact associated
with an early to mid- 20th Century logging town that was used as a sanitarium
after the mill shut down, and refuse deposits from the two periods are
mixed.
We've put some pictures of the glass artifact on our website- if
anyone has any idea what this might have been used for or a part of, we'd love
to
know:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Environment/CulRes/Compliance.htm
Dimensions
are on the website-it's a thick, oval-shaped bar of clear glass, with ridges
molded on one side and "Made in Germany" etched on the other. It looks like
something industrial-a lens for some kind of light, perhaps, but we haven't seen
anything like it before.
Thanks,
Scott S. Williams
Cultural Resources
Program Manager, WSDOT
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