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#1 Posted: Wed Jul 30th, 2008 11:49 pm |
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| Found this today while searching tot lots of all places. It was about 7 inches deep and was under the bark chips in the dirt. The park is in the middle of a town founded 1869 and im sure it Used to be a home site. Has name Stewart Brown on 1 side and USMC 1919 on the other. The blades are now a clod of rust but I think the casing could possibly be silver. Attachment: DSC00818.JPG
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#2 Posted: Thu Jul 31st, 2008 12:09 am |
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| liltracs,now thats interesting.Any research on the name?How about old cemeteries near by with that name.Thanks Ron Last edited on Thu Jul 31st, 2008 12:09 am by
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#3 Posted: Thu Jul 31st, 2008 12:16 am |
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| That is something, it would be real interesting to find something out about the guy. I imagine it would be hard with a common name.
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#4 Posted: Thu Jul 31st, 2008 01:40 am |
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Good Find.... A trip to the Court House or Library should help find out who this gentleman was...If you do find out, please post a follow-up. Tnx Richard
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#5 Posted: Thu Jul 31st, 2008 02:22 am |
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pretty cool
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#6 Posted: Thu Jul 31st, 2008 02:58 pm |
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WTG, that's one of the neatest
pocket knives I've seen,
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#7 Posted: Thu Jul 31st, 2008 06:05 pm |
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| Great find. Unique for sure. I wonder if you could get a cheap pocket knife and swap the guts. Then you would have a great functioning knife. If it's silver, it should have that greyish / silver look to it, like pre 1965 dimes have. Sweet find. HH
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#8 Posted: Thu Jul 31st, 2008 06:14 pm |
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wow! 1919 knife that's a great find my friend. Good to see you on this forum too.
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#9 Posted: Thu Jul 31st, 2008 06:44 pm |
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| great stuff. who am i kidding awesome!!!!!!!!
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#10 Posted: Fri Aug 1st, 2008 02:26 am |
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That definitely looks silver. If you want to do something really cool, see if you can trace the descendants of Stu, and give them the knife. There are a lot of genealogy search tools, or just google "Stuart Brown" (make sure you use the quotes) and the name of the town and the term "genealogy". You may get some hits from descendants as well as email addresses!
Nice find!
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#11 Posted: Sun Aug 3rd, 2008 12:07 am |
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| The name has come up a dead end every search I have tried so far. Some of the records I was able to acess were only partial listings. When I go back to the area Ill check around a little and maybe talk to some older people. I did find out it is actually an aluminum case and that aluminum was very rare in this time period and actually valued as a precious metal.
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