Just trying to figure this out. Looks like a dragon or fish design. Guessing it was a furniture escutcheon or something?
- Thread starter Squab
- Start date
tnt-hunter
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2018
- Messages
- 1,922
- Reaction score
- 10,517
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- Mountain Maryland
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 9
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
It is part of a musket side plate. Cool find. With luck maybe you can go back and find the rest of it. Stay safe, good luck and keep swingin.
- Joined
- Dec 30, 2012
- Messages
- 10,192
- Reaction score
- 19,359
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- Canton Ohio Area
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 2
- Detector(s) used
- Presently using Deus 2's & have Minelabs, Nokta's Tesoro's DEus's Have them all . Have WAY to many need to get rid of some
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Nice find 
river roamer
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Dec 9, 2022
- Messages
- 1,025
- Reaction score
- 1,576
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- East Coast
- Detector(s) used
- Excalibur II Excalibur 1000 Equinox 900
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Cool find Looks like a serpent
- #6
Thread Owner
Thanks so much for the id. This is a really cool piece hope I can find the head. Thanks again
Trade gun sideplate. Opposite of lock.
Congrats Squab , you lucky dog!
- #7
Thread Owner
Do you know the origin of the gun? Year maker where? Thanks
Makers varied.
The N.W. Trade gun your sideplate was used on is a type that followed/evolved from English fowlers. Maybe around 1775 they were started being traded here. There are references to them being traded on the North side of Lake Superior 1777-80.
[The primary sourced of the Indian trade gun was factories in Birmingham and London, England.]
Indian Trade Guns | American Western Expansion
Indian Trade Guns by Ned Eddins Thefurtrapper Article Catagories: Mountain Men American Indians Exploration Emigration Trails Forest Fires … Continued
thefurtrapper.com
In Depth Northwest Guns
www.speakingcedar.com
- #11
Thread Owner
Thanks so much for your help. I really appreciate itIn Depth Northwest Guns
www.speakingcedar.com
- Joined
- Dec 30, 2012
- Messages
- 10,192
- Reaction score
- 19,359
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- Canton Ohio Area
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 2
- Detector(s) used
- Presently using Deus 2's & have Minelabs, Nokta's Tesoro's DEus's Have them all . Have WAY to many need to get rid of some
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
BINGO NICE JOB Revelentchair !!!!!
Trade gun sideplate. Opposite of lock.
Congrats Squab , you lucky dog!
- Joined
- Aug 24, 2017
- Messages
- 21,111
- Reaction score
- 36,061
- Golden Thread
- 1
- Location
- SW Missouri/Oklahoma
- 🥇 Banner finds
- 1
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 2
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab CTX 3030; Minelab Equinox 800;
XP Deus 2
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Nice!!! Congrats!!!
Top Member Reactions
-
2322 -
1423 -
1350 -
1325 -
1111 -
969 -
841 -
830 -
706 -
593 -
564 -
552 -
510 -
465 -
464
