Colonial scale weight?

[screwynewy]

Got a new permission at a late 18th century house yesterday and dug this small brass item. Its about 12mm in diameter and weighs 1.6 grams. It appears to be made of brass. There is a threaded hole in the middle of it which confuses me since it would appear to be a coin weight. Maybe it was re-purposed into a nut at some point. I am guessing without the hole in it the weight would be around 2 grams. Has anyone seen a coin weight or apothecary weight that looked like this? I posted this in the "What's It" forum and got no responses.

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Interesting find!

 

[madmantrapper]

Is that a thread I see in side the hole?

 

[screwynewy]

Is that a thread I see in side the hole?

Got a new permission at a late 18th century house yesterday and dug this small brass item. Its about 12mm in diameter and weighs 1.6 grams. It appears to be made of brass. There is a threaded hole in the middle of it which confuses me since it would appear to be a coin weight. Maybe it was re-purposed into a nut at some point. I am guessing without the hole in it the weight would be around 2 grams. Has anyone seen a coin weight or apothecary weight that looked like this? I posted this in the "What's It" forum and got no responses.

 

[CRUSADER]

NOT a weight.

The kite mark looks like those that help date old porcelin, so thats a little odd, although I guess they used them on other objects as well. As the hole goes throw an offical trade mark, its a homemade doo-dad from another larger piece. ie. its cut down & holed.

 

[screwynewy]

NOT a weight.

The kite mark looks like those that help date old porcelin, so thats a little odd, although I guess they used them on other objects as well. As the hole goes throw an offical trade mark, its a homemade doo-dad from another larger piece. ie. its cut down & holed.

Thanks for Cru for chiming in on this. I was pretty sure it was a re-purposed something, maybe a nut but I just hoped to figure out what it started out life as. The markings on it look like they have a meaning but there isn't enough left to tell.

 

[Calabash Digger]

nice one!

 

[A2coins]

Good ID cru that's kinda a cool piece

 

[madmantrapper]

Got a new permission at a late 18th century house yesterday and dug this small brass item. Its about 12mm in diameter and weighs 1.6 grams. It appears to be made of brass. There is a threaded hole in the middle of it which confuses me since it would appear to be a coin weight. Maybe it was re-purposed into a nut at some point. I am guessing without the hole in it the weight would be around 2 grams. Has anyone seen a coin weight or apothecary weight that looked like this? I posted this in the "What's It" forum and got no responses.

Thanks for pointing that out, don't know how I missed it.

 

[sandchip]

Cool find, whatever it is!