Brass Mystery Object

[VTColonialDigger]

I found this in my yard and have no clue what it is.


Front


Back

Any ideas?
(silver dime for size comparison)

Made of thin brass
Very intricate design on front
Small bar on back is not a pin and attached on both sides

 

[ARC]

My guess...

Floral arrangement card holder... early one.

 

[relic lover]

I think I found a matching other half LOL I am pretty sure I have the same thing with just two rectangular holes I will have to take another look at mine very similar though

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[relic lover]

I found this picture of my display in my phone and that's it in the top row behind the melted large cent

I always thought that mine was something off the front of a steamer trunk

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[relic lover]

Now that I've seen yours I'm assuming it's some kind of buckle. I will be pleased when we get an identification. Mine came from a Cellar hole that had nothing newer than late eighteen hundreds with finds dating back to late Seventeen hundreds. This was one of my earliest finds from when I started detecting

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[VTColonialDigger]

Very interesting that you found one of these as well. You were saying that you found yours at a cellar hole from the late 1700s to late 1800s. I found mine in an area that I have found colonial relics in so it could be quite old. It will be interesting to find out what this object is.

 

[Anduril]

Any chance this is a pin (something to wear)?
What is that horizontal bar going across the piece on the 2nd photo (rear)?
Something must slide in there - else why would it exist?

 

[VTColonialDigger]

I think a piece of cloth or leather went through the bar on the back, and it is connected on both sides. Maybe something someone wore or maybe a piece off of something horse related.

 

[relic lover]

It kind of reminds me of the top of one of those things that you sharpen a straight razor with. The white cloth part could have been attached to the loop and leather to 2 the other part?

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[doublet2a]

Looks like half a sash buckle, and you guys have a half each.

Tim

 

[relic lover]

Looks like half a sash buckle, and you guys have a half each.

Tim

I think you are correct

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[QUICKSILVER (appletree)]

yup you 2 together have a whole ladies sash buckle

 

[VTColonialDigger]

Yeah, it does look like a sash buckle. Any date range?

 

[highnam]

I found this sash buckle in a 1910 logging camp

 

[highnam]

This half of a sash was found in a 1900 farmhouse...

 

[VTColonialDigger]

would you say victorian era or turn of the century for a date on the sash buckle I found??

 

[baspinall]

Could also be an old metal book clasp.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/260575528418823866/

 

[relic lover]

This is a possibility it seems like most of the sash buckles are more three-dimensional and this item is relatively flat

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[relic lover]

we might be onto something

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