Gun Tool? And small mystery brass from Battlefield Farm

[Kiros32]

Any ideas?

 

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[HuntinDog]

Your gun tool part looks more like scissors.
The other piece reminds me of a suspender part

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Very likely yes on the musket tool.

You'd have to clean it up to see - it might also be scissors as mentioned above.

 

[HuntinDog]

Well I'll be darned...
Looks like Charlie is on to something...

 

[Icewing]

The other piece looks kind of like part of a broken tongue and wreath buckle.

 

[Kiros32]

The other piece looks kind of like part of a broken tongue and wreath buckle.

Same basic shape for sure, but I think this much too small for that. Were there similarly designed tongue/wreath clasps with smaller applications?

 

[Reanm8er]

Referencing photo 3, the small knob projection at nine o'clock position that is the hinge of a machinist's compass scribe. The arm with the knob had a pointed arm attached to it. That was the center arm and was held against the central point of the drawing/model by the knob. The other side had an arm with a hardened point on it and was used to scribe the measurement or arc. Great for bisecting circles or measuring off segments of a line. I guess it might have been used to calculate artillery elevation?
The other item does look like some kind of a tongue and wreath design but perhaps a ladies garter clasp?

Nice work Kiros!