Lead cast relic

[WilcoKen]

Has anyone seen a relic like this? I found it in my cornfield today. Looked like an odd rock until I turned it and saw the face. Looks like Lincoln. It is soft and appears to be cast from lead.


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[WilcoKen]

Sorry--

pic attached.


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[Smo]

Is it heavy enough to be lead?

I've seen cast figurines made of zinc and similar metals....

but never in a cornfield! Cool find it would be neat if you could turn up more parts of it.

It's my understanding that lead was a commonly used metal in earlier years for various items.

 

[ROVERBOY]

That's a pretty neat find.

 

[cbhunter]

Well that's just freaking awesome to find in a cornfield

 

[GOHUNT]

If it were from Lincoln's era, or civil war, and if it were lead, it should be more oxidized/white, right? I can't see in this pic that it is white. Very nice find!

 

['borohunter]

Very cool

 

[Wobblyshot1]

Can't really tell from the photo but it looks like it may have been hollow. Just a thought...but there were a lot of small Lincoln bust coin banks made early and mid last century. Some out of pewter.

 

[RUGER]

Wow that is very very cool right there.

 

[GOHUNT]

Could that be Cival War trench art? I'd bet it is carved from a chunk of lead, which they had as available as brass was to WW2 GIs.

 

[farmin68]

That's a rare find. It's from a 1920s Pez dispenser.

 

[Smo]

Everybody needs a little lead in their Pez ! LOL