A few items that I'm not sure about?

[Jacobsdt]

I'm not sure if these items can be identified but I thought I would try before tossing them into my unidentified iron box. I found these in a Civil War camp. I have three different items,

I do believe this is a small hammer. Maybe a blacksmithing hammer?

This piece reminds me of a lever action rifle piece, but I wasn't able to find one like this on the net.

I thought this might have been a knife, one side is a lot thinner like it had an edge on it? What do you think?

Group of some of the finds from the day. Thanks for looking.

 

[jewelerguy]

the bottom thing is half of a pair of scissors

 

[jewelerguy]

the middle thing kind of reminds me of part of a horse bit

 

[vhs07]

Looks like the lever is from a BB gun

 

[Jacobsdt]

the bottom thing is half of a pair of scissors

I do see that now, thanks.

 

[ecmo]

I believe jewlerguy is correct about the scissors, and yes that is a lever/triggergaurd combo from a rifle I can't identify just which one and I own now or in the pastacouple dozen lever action rifles from the 2 major manufacturers of them, covering several different models and about 130 years. The thing throwing me off is the bumps under the loop and triggergaurd. Maybe it's just the photo but the lever loop looks small like possibly a BB gun as someone mentioned. A size comparison would help.

The other thing is a hammer head, but it too looks pretty small, again need comparison. The top view of it sort of reminded me of a RR spike driving hammer as I once worked on the RR was way back in my history. Don't imagine there ever was a RRnear this site, looks short for that.

Don

 

[Jacobsdt]

I believe jewlerguy is correct about the scissors, and yes that is a lever/triggergaurd combo from a rifle I can't identify just which one and I own now or in the pastacouple dozen lever action rifles from the 2 major manufacturers of them, covering several different models and about 130 years. The thing throwing me off is the bumps under the loop and triggergaurd. Maybe it's just the photo but the lever loop looks small like possibly a BB gun as someone mentioned. A size comparison would help.

The other thing is a hammer head, but it too looks pretty small, again need comparison. The top view of it sort of reminded me of a RR spike driving hammer as I once worked on the RR was way back in my history. Don't imagine there ever was a RRnear this site, looks short for that.

Don

Hey Don, thanks for the info. The hammer is small, there is a railroad near by and I have found 2 railroad spikes in the same area. But the hammer does seem a bit small for using on a spike. We know that an artillery unit was camped there, (lots of eagle A buttons and a few cannon balls found) but we also found a lot of horse shoe's and pieces of horse shoe's.

 

[ecmo]

Hey Don, thanks for the info. The hammer is small, there is a railroad near by and I have found 2 railroad spikes in the same area. But the hammer does seem a bit small for using on a spike. We know that an artillery unit was camped there, (lots of eagle A buttons and a few cannon balls found) but we also found a lot of horse shoe's and pieces of horse shoe's.

Just got to thinking, could it possibly be a hammer the Civil war military carried with them to drive down tent stakes, lighter than a sledgehammer to pack along. Me thinks light for that also, dunno.

Don