metal arrowhead, piece of silverware?

[donkarlos]

In an area, well, an old wagon path where I once found a musket ball and large cent I found this metal arrowhead. My gut feeling is that it is old, too. Also found the pictured ring (no idea) and the piece of silverware. I dont find eating utensils much but this'll piece is heavy. It doesn't seem to clean up like silver though I didn't go crazy scrubbing it. It is very flat and smooth and has a little bend where it broke. Pewter? Hammered?
The dime and quarter just show a relative scale. Thanks for looking.

 

[wvplug]

Certainly looks like a piece of flatware.

 

[old digger]

What state are you? Does the round item look like it is copper? The reason I am asking is that it looks like a copper trade bead.

 

[donkarlos]

New England usually. It wasn't too deep which doesn't always mean too much, but sounded nice on thd sovereign gt. There is no threading in it at all so I didn't think it was just a nut or anything. The flatware sounded like silver and was about 8" deep. Wish I could have found the other part. I also found drawer pull screw in the area once.

 

[MuckyBottles]

The bead looking thing looks like a bushing, the other stuff looks like frags from silverware.

 

[donkarlos]

..plus the arrowhead. What's a brushing for or part of?

 

[MuckyBottles]

Bushing- a usually removable cylindrical lining for an opening (as of a mechanical part) used to limit the size of the opening, resist abrasion, or serve as a guide.
Bushing - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

 

[donkarlos]

Sweet, a trade-bushing.
Definitely interested if anyone has an age for the flatware or ideas if it was hammered or what. Might be asking a lot because of the lack of lettering I guess.

 

[Madmox]

That piece of flatware is probably pewter. That would explain it not shining up and it was commonly used in flatware

 

[MuckyBottles]

That piece of flatware is probably pewter. That would explain it not shining up and it was commonly used in flatware

Or plated and the plating is gone

 

[donkarlos]

That piece of flatware is probably pewter. That would explain it not shining up and it was commonly used in flatware

Thanks - that makes sense. It really has some weight to it (well, 12 grams). Sounded off nice like lead does, too.

 

[donkarlos]

Or plated and the plating is gone

Could be that, too!

 

[GatorBoy]

Now that's a new one "trade bushing!"
This is just a wild guess but the two pieces of metal look so much alike it makes me want to think someone cut up a spoon and made an arrowhead... At some point in time.

 

[GatorBoy]

I'm not seeing that as a piece of flatware.
Both of the pieces look like cut copper in the photos to me.
Any moonshine stills in your area?

 

[donkarlos]

Don't know, really. I didn't smell any mash but the wind was blowing pretty hard that day.

 

[GatorBoy]

Smelling mash wouldn't really have anything to do with what I was talking about.
Many stills are made from copper.. and many alterations are made on those while out in the woods. I'm thinking you have possible pieces from that.
I just don't think those pieces of copper are that old