digging merrily away in the garden I dug up this it looks like a cow and I would think due to the weight it is made of lead
wow, strange ;D
on halloween, our uncle used to heat lead up and drop it in a bath of cold water, we were all given a piece, all different shapes, as good luck charms for a year, never got a cow-shaped one :)
cor!
I was given a small lead swan many moons ago, I think it was used as a fishing weight....presume yours is a child's toy, would be banned now of course! :-\
Wow! that's a really great find! I only usually find broken bottles and rocks in mine :'(
Does it bend if you flex it? (don't try too hard!) if it bends easily then it's likely to be lead - otherwise it could be pewter.
Keep it for the next time Antiques Roadshow is in town!
yes does seem to bend quite easily on the legs so very likely lead
Is it really as bright as it looks in the photo, or has it got a sort of white verdigris? Lead usually keeps it's colour as it ages. I work with stained glass, so I know a bit about lead, also my father made and designed lead and then plastic model soldiers and farm animals ....... he developed a way of producing hollow cast lead models.
What I mean to say is......if it's not lead coloured but as heavy as lead, maybe it's something more valuable!
it looks as though it was painted brown at one time but think the light is the reflection from my poor photography certainly heavy enough to be lead
Yes that looks more like lead. Can you see a makers name on the bottom, Britains?
cant see anything underneath on the top of the platform it is stood on its too dirty to see
Ooh! That takes me back, Debster! :) When I was a nipper I had a wonderful toy farm - with loads of lead animals! (My brother had a fort with lead soldiers!)
How big is your cow though? If I remember correctly the bigger animals were around an inch high - yours looks much bigger than that. ???
the cow is about and inch and a half high and two and a half long