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« on: August 09, 2006, 11:15:09 am »
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    About a mile from our favorite Sierran ghost town is a fairly flat spot.  On one side is  stream running through dense bushes.  Somehow we discovered  that in the roots of the bushes and under the dirt many pristine bottle were waiting for the light of day.  Through the years a number of people have delved through the earth and roots to patiently find a bottle every now and then.
     I decided to detect around the area one day. 
Directly under a spot where many people have walked through the years was the knife attached below.

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« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2006, 02:25:18 pm »
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Thats a GREAT find!!!!

Almost as good as my Fairburn Sykes commando dagger.

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« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2006, 05:20:42 am »
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Dean,
   Thanks.  Please show your daggar.

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« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2006, 01:17:17 pm »
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I donated it to the Camp X Historical Society..I will get a photo and post it...just rasing you about your knife..Thats a great find!!!!

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« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2010, 09:40:53 pm »
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Thanks for the ruler it helps a lot. 

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« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2010, 02:12:13 pm »
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is there any markings of any kind on it? Clapp

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« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2010, 06:31:28 pm »
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Never saw a blade like that on a Bowie Knife before now.  I wonder if the owner made it for fighting and skinning.  The curve up front would be good for that.  Was the ghost town near Bodie?  I use to go to Aurora just east of Bodie and it was a great THing site.  Somewhere on our site here I read something about a cleaner for iron that works so slick you just dip it.  Maybe if you used this new stuff it would clean that knife up so good that you could read " Jim Bowie 1833 ".

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« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2010, 09:26:55 pm »
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Don't it just make you wonder what happened to the original.   Probably picked up after the Alamo battle by some Mexican soldier and used around camp for awhile, then on a long, hot, dusty march cast away never to be seen again. Cry

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« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2010, 12:58:30 am »
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It was probably traded or lost in gambling.  Used as a hammer and pry bar until it was bent and broken.  Only pretty knives survived.  Like ivory handled silver ingraved with a couple of rubies in the handle.  Then it wasn't used as a knife, but as an ornament hanging on a wall or dangling from the horn of a bull.  Passed down from Father to Son with a tale of blood as a legend, along with the whip and pistol.  These all disapeared in one of the Mexican revolutions never to be seen again.  Until one day a hundred years later a box was dug up by a man with a metal detector and in the box was even more wonderous things.

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« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2010, 12:12:43 pm »
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that is quite a find! Clapp

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