http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Glass-German-Target-Ball-Pair_W0QQitemZ7229264704QQcategoryZ7309QQrdZ1QQcmd ZViewItem

Anyone seen that stuff before? Is it from the dark ages or what?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Glass-German-Target-Ball-Pair_W0QQitemZ7229264704QQcategoryZ7309QQrdZ1QQcmd ZViewItem

Anyone seen that stuff before? Is it from the dark ages or what?

Kdub?? This would be your area of expertise! :)

Pre - Clay Pigeon shotgun targets. Sometimes they stuffed them with feathers for more realism. I shutter at the thought of my backyard trap range covered with broken glass.

Bye
Jack

old timey skeet looks expensive...sheesh

lmfao

when I hit the lottery I will buy a few for ****s-n-giggles.

lmfao

when I hit the lottery I will buy a few for ****s-n-giggles.


Rare becasue they weren't made to last...of the hundreds of thousnads made, finding one toay is a neat trick...but i doublt that i'd spring for them at that price.

kdub is cussing himself for throwing his out when he switched over to clay pigeons.

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Jack

How long ago where these used? 50-100 years ago? 150-ish?

The heyday of the glass target ball was from the late 1870s until around 1920. Some of these little jewels can be VERY valuable. In the summer of 2003, some fellow bottle diggers, and myself, pulled two previously unknown yellowish amber glass balls from the depths of a late 19th Century privy. This outhouse was for a local saloon and shooting gallery, and was filled with the trash of everyday life. Many whiskey, medical, beer and other bottles were pulled from the soil of that pit. Also unearthed were the target balls. They were heavily embossed in large letters, Liddle & Kaedig, Agents, San Francisco. These same lovely orbs soon sold for the unheard of price of $9000. each. Two prominent collectors are now the proud owners of the only San Francisco target balls in existence. The fact that they survived in perfect condition after being buried for 125 yrs is a wonder in itself. I am certainly happy that they did.

mike

I've got enough problems with shooters whining about the 7 different clay birds we present, let alone throwing some glass "orbs" in the the mix! :eek:

I've got enough problems with shooters whining about the 7 different clay birds we present, let alone throwing some glass "orbs" in the the mix! :eek:

kdub, What kind of complaints did you get over the little ice globes you used with the .22 cal shotguns? ;)

Lee L.