House Site relics

[USMC18]

Found these items at two separate house sites. They both appear to be chrome plated copper or brass. Any ideas?

 

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[Icewing]

Reins guides for a team of horses.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=reins+guides&FORM=HDRSC2&PC=MOZB

 

[P.ALLEN]

Screw tops for a lampshade

 

[USMC18]

Wow, hit it right on the nail! Thanks man.

 

[A2coins]

Yep Someone always gets it.You could take a stick pin from the 1800s throw it in a woodchipper take it up in space and drop an anvil on it and someone would ID it lol

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Added the US Patent diagram.

The photo shows where the rein guides were located. In horse-harness lingo, they are called a "terret." Ignore the red-lettered "your item" in the horse-harness catalog scan.

The shape of a terret / rein guide's opening varies, sometimes merely a simple circle, sometimes a fancy geometric shape as we see on your find. But the distinctive shape of the lower part is always the same... a short thick threaded shaft with a disc-shaped collar (called a "stop") at the shaft's top. See the US Patent diagram for a variation of terret/rein-guide, below.

There are even fancier ones, called a "swinger" terret or fly-head terret. See the early-1900s advertizement, below.

 

[USMC18]

Thanks for the info. I guess I have a pretty old site to keep detecting.