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<p>[QUOTE="bcuda, post: 4624449, member: 105389"]You are close enough yes it is upside down and it looks a grenadiers pin. It is an Artillery (Exploding cannon ball) type applique that has two very crude square sided nails on the back that would have been applied on some kind of wood. And if they had grenades in the 1600s then possibly perhaps a crate of cannonballs or grenades ? I am not sure. It is very very thick so as not to bend when hammered into some wood.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now for the story I had one exactly like this one that I had found in Spain and this one that I bought is also from Spain. It is basically the same exact one I had that I found metal detecting. Some times during the winter time in Spain and when a big Northern storm would come in there was a beach I would go metal detect the very next day and I would find loads and loads of Spanish 8 maravedis coins from the early 1600s from a Spanish ship wreck that was close by that has washed up from the storm. My friend and I would get up early and hit that beach and come home with all kinds of stuff. I had found one of these just like in the pic above at that same site and somehow lost it. My friend found a flint lock what we called a blunder buster gun with some of the wood still intact (had barnacles growing all over it) there also. This area we would metal detect had some large naval battles with the Spanish and English and was rich in artifacts. I just never thought I would ever see one again. Am pretty excited to have a second one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bcuda, post: 4624449, member: 105389"]You are close enough yes it is upside down and it looks a grenadiers pin. It is an Artillery (Exploding cannon ball) type applique that has two very crude square sided nails on the back that would have been applied on some kind of wood. And if they had grenades in the 1600s then possibly perhaps a crate of cannonballs or grenades ? I am not sure. It is very very thick so as not to bend when hammered into some wood. Now for the story I had one exactly like this one that I had found in Spain and this one that I bought is also from Spain. It is basically the same exact one I had that I found metal detecting. Some times during the winter time in Spain and when a big Northern storm would come in there was a beach I would go metal detect the very next day and I would find loads and loads of Spanish 8 maravedis coins from the early 1600s from a Spanish ship wreck that was close by that has washed up from the storm. My friend and I would get up early and hit that beach and come home with all kinds of stuff. I had found one of these just like in the pic above at that same site and somehow lost it. My friend found a flint lock what we called a blunder buster gun with some of the wood still intact (had barnacles growing all over it) there also. This area we would metal detect had some large naval battles with the Spanish and English and was rich in artifacts. I just never thought I would ever see one again. Am pretty excited to have a second one.[/QUOTE]
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