✅ SOLVED Brass lock latch?

[USMC18]

Found this at an old house site. Kinda looks like a latch for a chest or something.

 

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[nhbenz]

Maybe a book hasp?

 

[Johncoho]

Keyhole escutcheon for a lock?

 

[A2coins]

A sleleton key would fit in that key hole Cool find

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

A couple of pics from different angles would help.
I'd like to see the back and the side, I'm having trouble visualizing how it attached to the piece to be locked.

Dave

 

[USMC18]

Thanks for looking. Here is a side view and rear view.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Thank you for the additional pics USMC18.
Unfortunately, it still doesn't look familiar and I've found a lot of brass furniture hardware, but this one is a mystery.
It has the look more of a decorative piece, as opposed to an actual lock plate to me.

Hopefully someone here will recognize it for you.

Dave

 

[ARC]

Maybe a book hasp?

Agreed... Although searches may yield with the word "hasp" replaced with "clasp"... which is what they are called.

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[USMC18]

I agree with it being a book clasp. Sounds to me like it's a clasp for a bible from the 1800s, according to some research. Thank you for the help!