✅ SOLVED Help needed dating a gun hammer

[TrpnBils]

I pulled this out of a river ford tonight that has yielded everything from Spanish silver to wheat pennies to lots and lots of 3 ringer bullets. I'm not real knowledgeable about guns, but is there a way to identify how old this is or what model it would have come off of? Have no idea if it's old or new, but the corroded part I'm guessing is so bad because of black powder.

 

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[jadocs]

Cool whatever it is.

 

[TrpnBils]

Thanks - this came from right where the ford leads up over the hill on the old colonial road which is now a farm field. This place has been loaded with stuff...every time I've gone so far I've dug at least one large cent. Got an 1832 about 15 feet from this piece tonight.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Not a gun part, it looks similar to part of an old mortise lock, but it's not that either....

 

[BosnMate]

I have not idea what it is, kind of looks like a cog that fits into the teeth on a sprocket. I've built a number of flint and cap lock guns, and what you have is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a gun part of any kind. First clue, if it was a hammer for a cap lock, the hole would be square, not round.

 

[l.cutler]

Hard to say what it is, but as stated not a gun part.

 

[TrpnBils]

Sounds good - if it's not a gun part, I'm not really too worried about finding out what it is. Thanks!

 

[Tony in SC]

Looks like the throttle lever from an old carb, Zenith, Model T, Scheibler. etc ?

 

[NHBandit]

Looks like the throttle lever from an old carb, Zenith, Model T, Scheibler. etc ?

I agree that it's part of the linkage to something. In one of the pics (bottom left)
if you look at the hole you can see where it's beginning to get worn egg shaped from years of wear from whatever went through that hole. It's extremely common to find this sort of thing and while it's fun to try to figure out what it was, it's almost never anything "cool" like a gun part. Sorry.

 

[TrpnBils]

Looks like the throttle lever from an old carb, Zenith, Model T, Scheibler. etc ?

Have any photos of something like this?

I'm totally out of my element with relics (I'm a coin guy) but the guy I was hunting with was losing his mind because he was pretty sure it was off a gun. Maybe I should donate it to his collection instead of pitching it...lol

 

[Tony in SC]

Here's one from a rare solid brass Harrington, early 1900's

 

[TrpnBils]

Cool - that's real similar there except for the "elbow" or whatever you want to call it

 

[Tony in SC]

There are many variations.