🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Brass pin In wood

[Older The Better]

Found this at a site that has produced almost exclusively trade era artifacts including flintlock gun parts. Found in the same general area I’ve found brass ramrod thimbles… I’m wondering if it’s not a pin for a ram rod holder with some of the stock still intact. I don’t think it’s maritime related since it came from a bluff in Kansas.

 

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[Older The Better]

Yeah I found that headstamp a ways away I was using it a size reference, if I’m not mistaken they started stamping rem-Umc some time around the 20’s and since it doesn’t have the pattern around the primer it’s pre 1900’s or around there, and the New club makes it smokeless. But the brass pin I suspect is related to the trade site 1830’s, I’m wondering if it wasn’t a hard old knot, I’ve got an end cap from the same place with a little bit of the wood remaining inside. Wasn’t sure if anyone could back up my pin theory.

 

[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

It's kind of interesting how it isn't perpendicular to the grain of the wood.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Could be a trigger guard pin or something similar. If you look at the picture of my 1863 P1853 Snider-Enfield you can make out the trigger guard pin.

Or it can be something else!

 

[Older The Better]

Hadn’t thought about the trigger, could explain how the wood survived, if it was from deep inside. Also makes me wonder if the brass doesn’t have something to do with it. Thanks for the thought… I wish carbon dating was cheap and accessible.