Have no clue

[VA Digger]

I found this along with some CW bullets and eagle buttons. It is closed at one end, and seems to be hollow. One side seems to be eaten away. Can anyone help out on what it might be?

 

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[Ant]

It looks like an old corroded cartridge case that had a lot of back pressure when it was fired. How about a shot of he primer area as if it was a cartridge case, it might be an old rimfire type. Is it magnetic?

 

[silverswede]

Maybe an old style crimp-on blasting cap. Don't hit it with a hammer until you find out it ain't.

 

[Montana Jim]

Part of a finial or the like?

End cap for pen?

 

[Foilman]

end of metal collared pencil or
pistol ramrod tip?

 

[haboo]

pistol ramrod tip

thats what i say it might be.

 

[wesfrye53]

I was thinking ramrod tip also.

 

[beerbarrel]

I don't know if this is any help, but I checked the musket I have, and it doesn't look like that.

Beerbarrel

 

[dustcap]

Looks like the top of an old medicine bottle to me.

 

[lonesomebob]

Tip end of a bayonet scabbard ,I think.

 

[Montana Jim]

Tip end of a bayonet scabbard ,I think.

I thought of that, either bayonet scabbard tip or maybe a sword drag tip... but have never seen one like that so I didn't mention it - do you have an example?

 

[CodyCat Borat]

That is a broken pencil.

 

[VA Digger]

We were thinking it may be a bayonet scabbard also but was not sure.