Ancient gun part/relic or wishfull thinking??

[Marauder Dan]

Hello all new guy here only been detecting for a few short weeks and have been having a pretty good time,I have a question for anyone that might know and im sending some pics of this weird little iron find! I found it today near the Hudson and Mohawk rivers in upstate Ny in Cohoes Ny hopefully someone will be able to tell me what it is,im keeping my fingers crossed and im looking forward to reading more on these posts in this wonderfull forum Thanks all! Dan

 

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[AKiwi]

Yep it sure looks like a hammer off some gun.....but..more than likely isn't
The experts will nail
Cheers

 

[Bryachris3]

What size is it?

 

[Marauder Dan]

Its a fairly small part about 1/4 of an inch thick,roughly 2 inches square as the scale shows ,,little part of something,pretty heft for a tiny thing!

 

[d2]

Looks like the frame to a derringer to me...d2

 

[Marauder Dan]

Does anyone else have any ideas or did I stup all of yous??

 

[dano91]

Part of a Wheel lock musket?

 

[Monty]

An old piece of rusted junk? Youse stumped me for sure! JIM

 

[dudes2112]

Check out this pic, I think Dano was right.

Dudes

 

[Marauder Dan]

Well,im pretty damn stumped!! I know one thing its old and rusty!! hehe

 

[tailfeathers]

If half of it is missing ? We used to use a similar tool to put in a cows nostrils to allow us to give the animal worm medicine. Won't know until you get the crud off....I worked as a gun smith for a few years on old weapons and cannot remember anything like this , unless it had a solid metal grip...Hope This will help or trigger another memory on another old timer. tailfeathers

 

[psgen]

I have consulted the bible of Gun Parts..................The Dixie Gun Works Catalog.......................while it looks very similar to a hammer assembly of a couple early pistols... mainly.... Starr (1858 & 1863) ...... the lack of any holes to bolt or pin the hammer into place for assembly makes it seem unlikely......... Most of the hammer assemblies pictured have a couple of holes with a few exceptions..... One of them being flintlocks which isn't even close to matching....... Not all models are pictured and the possibility exist that it is in fact a hammer assembly, but I have some doubts that it is...... This is only one readers opinion......................

 

[Marauder Dan]

Hi all!!! just wanted to say thanks for all of your hard searching for me..Im gonna file it away for now under my box lol. who knows,maybe Ill stumple on the rest of whatever it was and be able to piece something together!! Thanks to all who responded too!!! Back to digging!!!