✅ SOLVED Found this at a military Indian Wars site

[Mason Jarr]

Any ideas on what this might be? I'm thinking a saber hanger, but not sure. I don't have a tape measure with me so I used a quarter for scale.

 

[Mason Jarr]

A friend ID'd it as a musket sling hook.

 

[smokeythecat]

Yes, that's I've been told they are also. Nice find, I don't think I've ever found one of those.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Isn't anybody paying attention to the US quarter-dollar coin showing the brass hook-shaped object is at least 3.5-inches long? That's much longer than a musket/rifle sling adjuster-hook.

This 3.5"-long hook, with two rivets for attachment, could be from a US M-1851 swordbelt. (See the photo below.) But since the digger says it was found at an Indian Wars Era military site, if is more likely to be from a Model-1876 swordbelt. That being said... the shape of the curved hook on his find looks like what we see in the M-1851 photo.

 

[Mason Jarr]

Isn't anybody paying attention to the US quarter-dollar coin showing the brass hook-shaped object is at least 3.5-inches long? That's much longer than a musket/rifle sling adjuster-hook.

This 3.5"-long hook, with two rivets for attachment, could be from a US M-1851 swordbelt. (See the photo below.) But since the digger says it was found at an Indian Wars Era military site, if is more likely to be from a Model-1876 swordbelt. That being said... the shape of the curved hook on his find looks like what we see in the M-1851 photo.

Thanks for the reply. When I said "Indian Wars" I should have been more specific. This site was from the Snake Indian War (Shoshone/Paiute) and was used in the late 1860s. So the 1851 model is probably accurate.