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<blockquote data-quote="Guessologist" data-source="post: 504632" data-attributes="member: 11952"><p>Definitely USA, otherwise extremely coincidental!</p><p></p><p>Went to town on it with the Andre's pencils and steel wool and got some of it back to yellow brass, mystery solved it's an ancient kero tin <s>lid</s>bit:</p><p></p><p>WILLIAM RIGG PAT..... (abbreviated patent pending?) USA 25 FEB 68</p><p>DOWNER STANDARD OIL BOSTON</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/11952/1564879492_stdoil1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Not many references to Downer Standard Oil out there, but dates it pretty tightly to 1868-1871 ish</p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/11952/1564879504_stdoil.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/11952/1564880112_stdoil2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The house site is ~100m from a relatively major mine that operated on and off from 1861 to 1920s, works out pretty well I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guessologist, post: 504632, member: 11952"] Definitely USA, otherwise extremely coincidental! Went to town on it with the Andre's pencils and steel wool and got some of it back to yellow brass, mystery solved it's an ancient kero tin [s]lid[/s]bit: WILLIAM RIGG PAT..... (abbreviated patent pending?) USA 25 FEB 68 DOWNER STANDARD OIL BOSTON [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/11952/1564879492_stdoil1.jpg[/img] Not many references to Downer Standard Oil out there, but dates it pretty tightly to 1868-1871 ish [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/11952/1564879504_stdoil.jpg[/img] [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/11952/1564880112_stdoil2.jpg[/img] The house site is ~100m from a relatively major mine that operated on and off from 1861 to 1920s, works out pretty well I think. [/QUOTE]
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