🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Found at civil war site.

[savinghistoryalway.s]

Is this a watch fob? It does not appear to have any markings on it blank on both sides

 

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[TORRERO]

Not a watch fob, which has a place to hang a chain from,
Appears to be a lid from something
Looks like another unidentifiable brass / copper item that would go into my Whatzit box 🤣

 

[vhs07]

Looks like an outlet cover from an old brass floor box.

 

[DCMatt]

Pretty plain and functional piece of brass but obvious there was a hinge (or something) and possibly a catch attached at one time. Maybe a smoking pipe bowl cover? Pictured is from the late 19th - early 20th C.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Snuff box cover?

 

[ArfieBoy]

Interesting. Obviously, a hinged lid for something! Cool find. Thanks for posting.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

To me, it looks like the broken-off disc from a "plain" Militia type tongue-&-wreath swordbelt buckle. It appears to be the right size (diameter) for that identification. Civilian tongue-&wreath buckles (shown in the photo below) were made of thin stamped-brass, and this disc is too thick to be one of those thin Civilian one, so I'm thinking it's a generic Militia plate. Several are shown in the O'Donnell & Campbell book, "American Military belt Plates." The face of the disc may have had an emblem soldered to it.

All of that being said... I do see what MIGHT be hinge-attachment remnants which DCMatt is talking about. But I don't see much at all of a thumbnail-catch for lifting a "flip-top lid (like the smoking-pipe cover has). It is reported to have come from a civil war area, and wartime Southern manufacturers were good at salvaging brass pieces'n'parts.