{"id":3105,"date":"2022-03-06T08:56:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T13:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2022-03-06T08:56:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T13:56:24","slug":"1860-campaign-pendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/3105","title":{"rendered":"1860 Campaign Pendant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thought it was a copper but found a cool piece of history, an 1860 campaign pendant for the the candidacy of John Breckenridge\/Joseph Lane for president in 1860. Not much to look at, but clear enough to make out the names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The middle was apparently a photo\/likeness of each candidate made from some sort of iron compound, so it is totally toast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/030522.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"499\" height=\"442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/030522.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/030522.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/030522-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/030522-339x300.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is an unabused look at what the pendant looked like back in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/030522z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"202\" height=\"201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/030522z.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/030522z.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/030522z-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also found a &#8220;heads I win&#8221; &#8220;tails you lose&#8221; coin. Its NC-17 rated; who knew these things existed (I didn&#8217;t)? I couldn&#8217;t find how far back these go, but given its toasted condition and that it was found near the 1860 pendant, it could be 150+ years old. The oldest I could find online was from the 1960s, but no way a coin that young would be this toasted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also found a sterling ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought it was a copper but found a cool piece of history, an 1860 campaign pendant for the the candidacy of John Breckenridge\/Joseph Lane for president in 1860. Not much to look at, but clear enough to make out the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/3105\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}