✅ SOLVED Butt-end to a flagstaff?

[snaps]

Well, dreaming's still free(for now). Hi, got this where a lot of 1812 militaria has been found. It's heavy brass an looks the part? Thanks for looking

 

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[Tpmetal]

Its that flat spot from wear or made like that?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It is the brass end-cover from a buggy-harness pole. There were two such poles, one on each side of the horse. the leather-horse-harness straps attached to the pole. The flat spot was made by wear, when the pole's end was allowed to drag on the ground.

Again, I've got photos and diagrams which show the object in-place during use, but they're on my dead computer, so I can't post them in this reply. Perhaps somebody else here has some of them.

 

[snaps]

Cannonball, once again great eye, sound like the worn area helped identify it. Could it reside w/in the 1812 time frame? Tp that flat spot intrigued me from day one! Thanks guys!