Need Id help please

[Hawks88]

Was at local beach yesterday and these are my finds. Need help with the brass button says 130 years on it The ring might not be a ring that you wear because t he inner ring turns and can't find any marking on it. don't know what the heavy bronze might have been. I also have no idea what the barrel might be from. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

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[CRUSADER]

Barrel thingy is a ram rod guide from a gun.

 

[CRUSADER]

What is odd is what looks like a tombac button with a fox. But this are normally incised decorated & yours looks cast, whats the back look like?

 

[CRUSADER]

''brass button says 130 '' Is off the back of one of those badges to keep it falling off. You pinch it & slide it on a spike & it holds it.

 

[Hawks88]

hope this helps CRUSADER.

 

[BeepingN'Digging]

Yes, what CRUSADER said. In the Army we called them "dammit's" because they often fell off more than what they were securing to our uniform. The ring is a jewelry ring, called a spinner, although it's hard to tell from the photo what it's made of. Probably junk metal like every one I've found so far.

 

[CRUSADER]

View attachment 1580456 View attachment 1580457 hope this helps CRUSADER.

Thats a shame, its modern, I knew it looked odd.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Yes, what CRUSADER said. In the Army we called them "dammit's" because they often fell off more than what they were securing to our uniform. The ring is a jewelry ring, called a spinner, although it's hard to tell from the photo what it's made of. Probably junk metal like every one I've found so far.

Yep, a spinner. The two I found last year were unmarked, but tested negative for precious metals -probably stainless. I've yet to find one that's precious metals.

And yes to the "dammit"

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice finds, congratulations!

 

[fyrffytr1]

It is called a Ballou clutch. You can see it almost to the bottom of the page on this site. Yours has cleats on it which makes it post WWII. I suspect it is way newer than that as they are still used today.

Dating Metallic Insignia: Collar Disks

 

[fyrffytr1]

For more information than you will ever need, here is another link. As I suspected, your Ballou clutch dates to c2000.

Dating Metallic Insignia: Clutch Fasteners

 

[Lanny in AB]

You really are digging up some interesting finds!

Nicely done, and all the best,

Lanny

 

[Hawks88]

fyrffytr1 I just want to say thanks for that link. Was interesting. Thanks to everyone else that helped. Much appreciated.

 

[Hawks88]

I would also like to say that I think that bronze piece was ripped from a larger piece. Got no clue what it was.

 

[ecmo]

As others have said it clips to the back of military campaign ribbons and rank pins such as my old Army rank pin shown here.