Butt Plate found at Plantation site...need help w/ ID

[Stef45]

Hey y'all. Found this butt plate from a colonial plantation site. I can take more pictures if needed but it is very heavy brass. It measures about 5 1/2 inches long and 2 inches wide. On the back you can see a stamp, which I hope will help. Thanks!

 

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[gunsil]

Hard to get the stamp, but it looks a lot like a "broad arrow", the British mark for military equipment. If so it may well be from a Brown Bess but I am sure others will chime in with more knowledge.

 

[Stef45]

bump...

 

[CRUSADER]

Its the British Army 'Crows-foot' or Broad-arrow;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_arrow

Used on all British Military issued objects.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Stef, your photos don't show the upper end of your musket buttplate. That is the location of what is called the buttplate's tang, which is a narrower projection of that end of the buttplate. The tang's shape is an important ID-clue. Even if it I broken off, the width of the tang's stub (and whether or not there's a screwhole in it) could tell us something.

 

[Stef45]

Stef, your photos don't show the upper end of your musket buttplate. That is the location of what is called the buttplate's tang, which is a narrower projection of that end of the buttplate. The tang's shape is an important ID-clue. Even if it I broken off, the width of the tang's stub (and whether or not there's a screwhole in it) could tell us something.

Thanks CBG. Heres a link to my main post. Has more pics of the butt plate. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...tish-coming-first-rev-war-button-cw-more.html