Help with my buddys find.

[Leco]

Help with my buddy's find.

I am pretty sure it is the end of a knife handle. We are most interested in the possible age and make. My friend just
started detecting and this is one of his recent finds.

 

[duggap]

That looks to me like a piece off a pocket knife.

 

[Leco]

That looks to me like a piece off a pocket knife.

Yeah that is what i figured. He found it on old farm land where I found a Indian cent. We are just trying to figure out what the deer head and crossed rifle and sword meant. It kind of looks homemade

 

[yaxthri]

Don't think homemade looks cast but very worn.
The symbol looks like one of those old popular in Europe vignettes use as decoration on hunting associated objects. The deer head has a hunter's leather bag hanging under it and that's not a sword crossed with the riffle but a long hunting knife like it was used back in the days for hunting boars and deer.

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[Leco]

Don't think homemade looks cast but very worn.
The symbol looks like one of those old popular in Europe vignettes use as decoration on hunting associated objects. The deer head has a hunter's leather bag hanging under it and that's not a sword crossed with the riffle but a long hunting knife like it was used back in the days for hunting boars and deer.

Check this out vanino & henkel * | * Arbeiten | Lederprägungen | Jagd

Thank you for the input! I see the bag now, i kind of thought it might of been a shield. Good stuff.

 

[MichiganMan]

The offset hole is kind of perpelexing. You would think it would be in the middle.....?