Check out this old file

[pritch]

We dug this up at the construction site I'm on. This is very near the rail road tracks in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and we have found quite a few old artifacts. This thing is 18" long and 2" wide. Looks like it was a rasp on one side and a file on the other.




I stuck it in the sand blaster at the shop for a second, just to see. I think it will make a fine butcher knife someday.

[keykeeper]

Looks like a farriers combo file/hoof rasp to me. Several manufacturers used to make them like that.

[Dakota Woodworker]

Looks like an old horse hoof file to me.  It's always interesting to find stuff like this while doing some excavation.

[rusty]

Was digging up in new Hampshire once, kept finding strange glass bottles, 20 ft down...
Finally one of the locals told me they remembered that a pharmacy had burned down there decades ago....

[scottg]

Was digging up in new Hampshire once, kept finding strange glass bottles, 20 ft down...
Finally one of the locals told me they remembered that a pharmacy had burned down there decades ago....

  There is an old bottle for sale at Norm Heckler's auction right now, that will eventually sell for over $100,000.
    The current record for an old bottle is $176,000.

Hope you kept the strangest ones??
  yours Scott

[Neals]

I think I have 3 or 4 of those from farm auctions. This area was settled mostly after 1910. As common as they are here I guess that the ones I have are newer than that.