✅ SOLVED brass tube???

[Bharpring]

Does anyone know what this might be?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Looks like part of an umbrella.

"5" in the image below.

 

[Bharpring]

Dug this at a colonial site without any modern trash.

 

[CRUSADER]

Dug this at a colonial site without any modern trash.

LOL - these statements always make me laugh, & I always encourage others to ID first then make conclusions, not the other way around. The evidence speaks.
Anyway, he's right with the ID probably late 19th C.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

You were there.

So modern stuff gets in, obviously.


(PS - umbrellas go back to 400 B.C.E.)

The first lightweight folding umbrella in Europe was introduced in 1710 by a Paris merchant named Jean Marius, whose shop was located near the barrier of Saint-Honoré. It could be opened and closed in the same way as modern umbrellas, and weighed less than one kilogram. Marius received from the King the exclusive right to produce folding umbrellas for five years. A model was purchased by the Princess Palatine in 1712, and she enthused about it to her aristocratic friends, making it an essential fashion item for Parisiennes. In 1759, a French scientist named Navarre presented a new design to the French Academy of Sciences for an umbrella combined with a cane. Pressing a small button on the side of the cane opened the umbrella.