Brass spearhead? Hinge? Buckle?

[derekbeals]

Some recent finds from my neck of the woods (independence, mo). In a rich "civil war" era area, so curious what some of these random things may be. The toasty coin is a missouri sales tax token. The eagle pin seems like a design that's been used since as early as the 1880's, so no telling what it was actually used for. The buckle looking thing with rivets, no idea what that may be. Doesn't look that old though, even though it was found in the same area as civil war bullets and other 1840's items. The "hinge" doesn't look old, but I thought the numbers on the back were interesting. A quick google search with the numbers didn't come up anything for me. And what might that large brass thing be? Pretty interesting...and heavy.

Thanks everyone...

 

[calisdad]

Ice box hinge? Cool finds. Did you ID the coins?

 

[derekbeals]

The coins are an andrew jackson token & a missouri sales tax token. And someone else also mentioned ice box hinge! Thanks...

 

[vhs07]

The brass item might be from an old tent pole.

 

[rac7658]

are you sure it is brass? it looks like it could be a copperculture relic. check copperculture.homestead.com

 

[nhbenz]

What does the back of the eagle pin look like? Photo might help put a date range on it. I wonder if the hole at the bottom was to hang a ribbon/medal from, perhaps fraternal of some sort?
Edit: after poking around online I note that pretty much every presidential candidate in the late 1800's used those, so as you mentioned it may be impossible to attribute it to any specific application.