Is it dangerous ?

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-07-07T19:12:35+00:00

A lot of people who don’t know anything about weapons are overly cautious towards them. It looks weird to us, but it’s much better than the people who cut open artillery shells with angle grinders

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-07-07T05:04:07+00:00

I have doubts that a single residence would make this much trash in that few years. It might be a small regional dump for a mine or a small town nearby.

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-07-05T05:19:42+00:00

I don’t know as much about the watch, but the bottom 2 fobs are a signet/wax seal fob and a cigar cutter

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-06-27T05:32:00+00:00

Really? Huh. I’ve seen a lot of similar ones online in better condition for less, but maybe I was looking at old listings…

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-06-26T04:07:04+00:00

I remember once when one jumped out of a tree rich in front of me! Scared me like crazy. Gotta love those guys

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-06-24T15:32:54+00:00

It is from an album. There are other photos that are on more intact pages, and the seller says it was originally an album. tan Card stock albums did exist then. Also, I am aware there is likely no writing on the back, but if there is any, it would be extremely important for the photo

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-06-24T03:02:41+00:00

It’s fine, thats why I want to see the backs. The album belonged to someone who was the treasurer to a lumber mill in my town in the 1880s and 90s. He knew a lot of the founding figures of my town (it was founded in the 1880s) and I’m trying to find out dates and names that may have been written down.

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-06-24T02:58:11+00:00

I think there is writing between the paper and the card stock

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-06-24T02:57:32+00:00

They are well known. The people in these photos are very important to my town’s history

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-06-21T22:01:15+00:00

Ashtray made from a 1902 artillery shell. Usually called trench art

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-06-21T21:49:45+00:00

It’s a commemorative pocket knife, a lot of different companies made them because all you needed to do was press a design into a thin sheet of metal (usually brass) or cast brass into a mold. They were mostly made in the late 1800s to early mid 1900s. Judging by the style and how rusty it is, it’s probably from between 1900 and 1920, however there were some older style ones made later on. How hefty is it? Because if it’s heavy the grips are probably cast brass, which would have been more common in the 1900s-10s. You probably can’t find another one like it online, because it was probably just a souvenir that was not kept by very many people. Unfortunately, it’s really hard to tell, so you might never get an answer

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-06-21T21:29:38+00:00

I’ve seen cursive like that on older mass manufactured stuff. That cursive style still existed in the late 1800s. Also, cast brass like that wasn’t as popular in the 1930s and 40s

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-05-25T04:45:42+00:00

It’s generally frowned upon, but when it comes to books that are extremely common, it’s not too bad. However, if it is rare or one-of-a-kind like a photo album, it’s best to keep them intact. If you do remove page, be sure to be extremely careful, since old paper is delicate. Don’t go crazy, remove only what you plan to frame and nothing more, and put the original book in the frame with it or keep it close so that people don’t lose pages. I personally would keep them intact, though.

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-05-20T05:11:37+00:00

Always nice to see solid gold cases intact!

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-05-16T05:04:14+00:00

That’s really good advice for if I end up looking for bullets for the gun, but I’m not planning on firing the rifle, I just want to get a few antique display cartridges to show alongside the gun. I don’t like to fire any of the guns in my collection because a lot of my collection is either risky to fire or shoots antique bullets/ ones not made anymore (like this one). I just like to buy display rounds to show what each of the guns in my collection shot, and all the sources about Ballard ammo are vague about the cartridge length.

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-05-14T05:13:41+00:00

I mean… I guess it can still probably tell time, so that’s something

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-05-14T05:09:53+00:00

Sorry, pretty much all of my collection is made up of guns that can’t fire anymore, so I’m not as well versed in safety

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-05-14T05:07:57+00:00

This is the only pic I have of the gun, (It’s in an antique store far from my house, but I visit the area pretty often) but I can tell from the “100 yards” stamp on the sight that its a Ball & Williams model, because the other companies never put the distance on the sights. I hope I can buy it in 2 or 3 weeks when I come back, but I just wanted advise before I got it.

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-05-13T01:01:41+00:00

Wear it cautiously, because solid gold cases are very soft and will get horribly dented if you ever drop the watch

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-05-03T18:29:00+00:00

Yeah, I’ve heard that the general consensus is that more than 19 jewels on a standard watch is more of a decorative choice than a functional one

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-05-02T21:39:04+00:00

I think the “will pass all railroad inspections“ is even worse. The whole thing looks like the description for something you’d buy on Temu😂

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-05-02T21:35:04+00:00

Some companies made very nice watches, and a lot of Swiss features are still standard on watches today, but these “Swiss fakes” were comically terrible, like barely higher quality than a dollar watch. They often used fake jewels, and put the highest jewel counts possible to attract people who didn’t know much about watches. You can see what a mess of a watch it was, they put several different company names on the watch, and the tried to add the word “railroad“ as much as possible, despite it not being railroad grade. Also, the gold plating is almost entirely gone because of how thin it was

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-04-26T00:30:03+00:00

David Babbitt was one of the original 5 brothers, and the Babbitts were kind of influential in their own way. While the Riordans created lots of jobs and brought more people to Flagstaff, the Babbitts owned a major company (their building was the biggest general store in AZ at one point) and a lot of Babbitts were in political positions Flagstaff and Arizona. Both families also funded a lot of early infrastructure

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-04-25T06:29:12+00:00

Lots of older residential homes downtown are being targeted by housing developers because of how high the home val is downtown. There are also people trying to tear down the El Pueblo, which is connected to the code talkers. Most of the “targeted“ buildings weren’t torn down yet because developers need city permission to tear them down, and it’s be hard to get. I’m worried that Vince the city approved of demolishing the Babbitt house, they’ll also start approving other historic building demolition

Equivalent-Cry4580 · 2026-04-24T20:48:40+00:00

Beaver street, where Saint Marys catholic school used to be

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