🔎 UNIDENTIFIED I need help identifying a lead or lead pewter item.

[Alan Payne]

I found this item about a week ago underneath where they had torn up an old sidewalk. I also found a Civil War bullet and Enfield underneath the same sidewalk. This piece is made. I think out of lead or lead pewter and it looks like it was a cap that went over the end of an axle that would be on like a Poole wagon or maybe a baby cart or something like that and it has a flathead screwdriver slot that does not go all the way through and there are some faint scratches on the backside of this cap that looks like it was pushed over something like an axle shaft or potentially over something else like maybe a glass bottle I’m not sure what it is any help as much appreciated. Thank you very much.

 

[Almy]

I remember small caps something like this on the "Radio Flyer" wagon I had as a kid.

 

[ticndig]

maybe it's a candle snuffer

 

[Alan Payne]

I remember small caps something like this on the "Radio Flyer" wagon I had as a kid.

Do you remember if those caps were lead I remember caps like that on wagons myself, but they were always metal caps that didn’t have a slotted screwdriver on them

 

[Alan Payne]

maybe it's a candle snuffer View attachment 2253444

It’s definitely kind of shaped like a candle snuffer, but I believe it would be too small for a candle snuffer because it is smaller than a nickel

 

[AU Seeker]

Do you remember if those caps were lead I remember caps like that on wagons myself, but they were always metal caps that didn’t have a slotted screwdriver on them

The wheel caps were not lead, they were zinc plated steel.

 

[creskol]

It looks like the remains of a pewter browband rosette.

 

[Alan Payne]

The wheel caps were not lead, they were zinc plated steel.

That’s what I remember and this cap or whatever it is is made out of I believe lead and it also has Nerling around the flange portion of it to maybe provide some kind of grip.

 

[Alan Payne]

It looks like the remains of a pewter browband rosette.

I had to look it up.

 

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I found this item about a week ago underneath where they had torn up an old sidewalk. I also found a Civil War bullet and Enfield underneath the same sidewalk. This piece is made. I think out of lead or lead pewter and it looks like it was a cap that went over the end of an axle that would be on like a Poole wagon or maybe a baby cart or something like that and it has a flathead screwdriver slot that does not go all the way through and there are some faint scratches on the backside of this cap that looks like it was pushed over something like an axle shaft or potentially over something else like maybe a glass bottle I’m not sure what it is any help as much appreciated. Thank you very much.

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