✅ SOLVED Is this part of a mortise lock?

[invent4hir]

The brass artifact pictured below, without a maker's mark, was found near where a frame home had been built in the 1830s-40s. It is possible that an early 1800s cabin stood nearby. Today there are just mounds of back fill left over from when the frame home was re-located in 1996. Other artifacts found range in age from a 3-tine fork (circa 1800s), a kerosene lamp burner patented on April 30, 1883, and 5 wheat pennies to name a few.

Do you think it is part of a mortise lock? If not, what else could it be?

 

[cudamark]

That would be my guess.

 

[invent4hir]

That would be my guess.

cudamark, thanks for your guess.

 

[Ohiogoldfever]

The brass artifact pictured below, without a maker's mark, was found near where a frame home had been built in the 1830s-40s. It is possible that an early 1800s cabin stood nearby. Today there are just mounds of back fill left over from when the frame home was re-located in 1996. Other artifacts found range in age from a 3-tine fork (circa 1800s), a kerosene lamp burner patented on April 30, 1883, and 5 wheat pennies to name a few.

Do you think it is part of a mortise lock? If not, what else could it be?

I have had several mortise locks apart (I rebuild and refinish old doors). Looks like internal linkage to me. I think your spot on.

 

[invent4hir]

I have had several mortise locks apart (I rebuild and refinish old doors). Looks like internal linkage to me. I think your spot on.

Ohiogoldfever, thanks! Given your knowledge on old locks, I'll mark this one solved.