I have been slowly putting a collection of things I find in our garden together. These garden finds are only objects of my curiosity more than anything else. There are quite a few regular objects like an axe in the above picture and the knife below. Every object has a story, just like people and places. We have lived in Bellbowrie house for over four years and the collection is slowly building up.
Some of you may know I am a museum curator, so I tend to collect things and then I attempt to tell their story. However, even without my museum work, I am always curious to know the story about each of the things my sons and I find on the property. I have some stories to tell.
Recently however, I have been thinking that since I cannot research and find all the stories about each of my garden findings, I may write some short fiction instead. It sounds strange, but I have thought up some fiction you may want to read.
This month, I am busy writing for the NaNoWriMo, so hopefully, in December I will be freer to write some stories about my garden finds.
Let’s see what you make of these objects I have posted. Please feel free to tell your story about these objects or make suggestions – unless of course, you know what the real story. If you do recognise of know some of the objects, such as the gun, then, you have to tell us.
Tribalmystic Stories 
Very interesting things!
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Hi Joycelin (?) Your pistol cap gun is here.
http://www.reasonablyclever.com/bootlegtoys/photos/bond/bond.html
Ralph 😀
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Oh!! We have a winner! Thank you Ralph. You are correct. Now my story will have to change. I’m so glad we solved that mystery.
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Yay ! Well at least you know now. I had fun on Google Search finding this. 😀
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You’re too good Ralph. I was looking for it before, but could not match. 🙂 Thank you very much.
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I recently visited the place I lived forty years ago. I found a metal blade grown not a tree root. I know someone in my family left it ther since we built the place.
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Wow, how interesting. Thank you for sharing that. Take a picture next time.
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Pretty sure A.P. stards for “armor piercing” but I can’t find anything else on this. Does that say “Sinner” underneath?
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Thank you very much Jonathan for offering your suggestions. Underneath is the word “winner”. I didn’t figure that out – Ralph did. It is a pistol cap gun.
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Ooh, the pic of that gun is intriguing. I’d love to know the true story behind it.
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Thank you Sue. I wanted to ask you if you knew this gun. It could be a toy. I have been searching to find a match- nothing yet.
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I doubt it’s a toy. From the pic I can make out a model number. Have you searched using that model number? I’m betting you can determine the make and model. If you can’t, I know a firearms expert that might be able to help.
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Here is my recollection of the axe head…
In the 1950’s, human waste was collected in buckets via an opening to houses from the common back alley.
One night, some thieves used the opening of this system to get into my house from the common alley. You can imagine the rub-over from human waste as they crawled from the common alley into the house.
We were asleep all the time as we were on the upper floor.
The next day, my father went to the hardware shop to get an axe like the one in your photo and told me it was for the next batch of thieves.
An axe head like this always remind me of this episode when I was just about 4.
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kah wah tan – thecolorbox
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Kah Wah – that’s a very interesting story, and funny too, although it must have been a frightening and a very serious time for a four-year-old. Thank you for sharing your experience.Could you give me the link and I will re-post. It does not show up well.
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