Small Den Relic Display

[Tom Hughes]

Just put this small display together.

 

[UCVRelics]

Love the fuses

 

[Tom Hughes]

Love the fuses

Thanks! That large one is a Schenkle shell fuze. From where I found it, I believe the Federals had it set in a Parrott shell.

 

[major bill]

Nice little display. The fuzzes are nice.

 

[Ethan S.]

Noice! I see a James percussion fuse...

 

[Ethan S.]

Does the brick say anything?

 

[Tom Hughes]

Noice! I see a James percussion fuse...

Yes, good eye. It's a West Point style James percussion fuze

 

[Tom Hughes]

Does the brick say anything?

No, it isn't marked.
It's in my collection because it's a local made antebellum brick. Lots of character.
The site where I found it has lots of sand at the 6 ft. Level. The brick is almost brittle with sand. I've never seen one quite like it.

 

[donna]

Nice. Like seeing folks displays.

 

[Ole Miss]

Wish my wife woule let me have a display but as I am fortunate to live in her house I will not whine a whole lot.
Regards
David

 

[Virginia Dave]

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Just put this small display together.

Well done. Keep posting as it grows.

 

[Ethan S.]

No, it isn't marked.
It's in my collection because it's a local made antebellum brick. Lots of character.
The site where I found it has lots of sand at the 6 ft. Level. The brick is almost brittle with sand. I've never seen one quite like it.

I collect street pavers with company names on them. They're pretty cool, but 90% are from the 1910s. The only pre 1860s bricks I've found, were made of local clay that actually came off of our ridge. Those are brittle.

 

[Ethan S.]

Wish my wife woule let me have a display but as I am fortunate to live in her house I will not whine a whole lot.
Regards
David

Secession?

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

Back in the 1960s, I saw a historical display at the Ohio State Fair, I think by the Soil and Water Conservation folks, showing some old clay field drainage "tile" in the shape of bricks with some language molded into the flat side of them about John Wilkes Boothe, the Martyr.

These were likely locally made near where they were dug - lots of clay in Ohio for bricks, tile, etc.
They were made in a form I have never seen before or since, oblong rectangles, with one long side shaped into a trough from end to end. They were installed in the dirt, end to end, laid one on top of the other, troughs to the inside, and so creating an open tube running through the middle.
The design reminds me now of how the lady at Subway makes my sandwiches, with the long bread loaf cut through the middle, and then some bread scooped out of the center (creating a tube) so the ingredients will fit in the hollow!

I suspect they were homemade by some southern sympathizer who didn't offer them for sale or show them off, just put them into the ground on his farm. Round clay tiles (the usual type laid by hand digging to drain wet fields in the the old days) would have to be extruded, and require some sort of machinery and so would be a manufactured item, but any farmer with a clay pit on the farm could make rectangular bricks and fire them - we had some chimneys made from home made brick on the farm where I grew up.

Anyway, such "brick" would certainly make an eye stopping part of a display, eh?

 

[Ole Miss]

Secession?

You are obviously joking, right? Never, never ever start a fight with a superior person as it will hurt and you won't win!
Regards
David

 

[Ethan S.]

You are obviously joking, right? Never, never ever start a fight with a superior person as it will hurt and you won't win!
Regards
David

Not married, never have been, never will, not too sure how it works.