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A friend of mine found these out in California while hunting for gold nuggets, and is seeking help IDing them, any help would be great.

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Skip

Here is a post he made on another forum.

"These appear to be copper rivets. I was wondering if anyone can ID and possibly date them. Found not to far from early immigrant trails. One looks unused and the worn one does still weakly show the same star"
 

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I dont know the date because they may be still used today. They have been posted here before but this is the first time I saw a screw type. They were probably used in leather.
 

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I believe that's a roofing tack. Could be wrong though... :thumbsup: jgas
 

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They were used to hold 2 pieces of leather together usually on a harness. They had a disc that would slip over the post and you would smash the end to hold the disc on. They are hard to date as they have been used for years. I think the ones with stars were made by a company called Storm.
 

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Its a rivet.
 

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I didn't say rivet But that's what I meant :tongue3: I'm getting senile or something.
 

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vayank54 said:
I didn't say rivet But that's what I meant :tongue3: I'm getting senile or something.
I know. I was responding to jgas. Sorry.


jgas said:
I believe that's a roofing tack. Could be wrong though... :thumbsup: jgas
 

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vayank54 said:
I didn't say rivet But that's what I meant :tongue3: I'm getting senile or something.

Not Senile, just a "Senior moment" ;D. We all have those, we have earned them.

hammered
 

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bigcypresshunter said:
Its a rivet.

Glad to see that my 2008 pack rivet collection is making the rounds. :tongue3: ;D
 

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BuckleBoy said:
bigcypresshunter said:
Its a rivet.

Glad to see that my 2008 pack rivet collection is making the rounds. :tongue3: ;D
Its a good pic of a variety of old rivets..
 

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I have dug those with the Star along the immigrant trail myself and a buddy digs a lot of them in 1860- sites.I have not seen threaded ones but have dug and seen threaded screws come from 1850's sites
 

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kuger said:
I have dug those with the Star along the immigrant trail myself and a buddy digs a lot of them in 1860- sites.I have not seen threaded ones but have dug and seen threaded screws come from 1850's sites

I have dug threaded screws from CW era sites as well. No idea what they were used for. :dontknow:
 

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vayank54 said:
They were used to hold 2 pieces of leather together usually on a harness. They had a disc that would slip over the post and you would smash the end to hold the disc on. They are hard to date as they have been used for years. I think the ones with stars were made by a company called Storm.


Thanks for all the input, these have been indeed confirmed to be "harness rivets" by several other people, the only thing that we haven't been able to determine is the age as they were used for a period of time.

Thanks,
Skip
 

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kuger said:
I have dug those with the Star along the immigrant trail myself and a buddy digs a lot of them in 1860- sites.I have not seen threaded ones but have dug and seen threaded screws come from 1850's sites
Should get ya in the Ball park,put it this way,I personally havent seen them come from post 1870 sites
 

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