iron or steel heart shaped metal

[peanut]

Any one know what this could be? I found it in a civil war camp. It is fairly thin and has holes in it like it was attached to something.
Thanks, peanut

 

[johnnyi]

That's a tough one peanut. It does look as though the two side holes may have attached it to something (maybe riveted to leather?) while the middle hole got the wear from a "moving part" of some kind. I noticed a little spur on the bottom right. Is that something we ought to know about more?

 

[CRUSADER]

Possibly furniture related.

 

[Silver Searcher]

That's a tough one peanut. It does look as though the two side holes may have attached it to something (maybe riveted to leather?) while the middle hole got the wear from a "moving part" of some kind. I noticed a little spur on the bottom right. Is that something we ought to know about more?

Could say it's a tough nut to crack

SS.

 

[johnnyi]

Crusader, I was wondwering if it might be a drawer pull plate too, but dismissed the idea because of the center hole. You reminded me though that there were occasionally cylindrical keys that might fit a round hole, if the enter hole was a key hole, so you might very well be right about furniture related.

 

[peanut]

That's a tough one peanut. It does look as though the two side holes may have attached it to something (maybe riveted to leather?) while the middle hole got the wear from a "moving part" of some kind. I noticed a little spur on the bottom right. Is that something we ought to know about more?
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It is rust, like it might have been next to another metal object.