No idea on this one.

[Garabaldi]

It actually has a grooved pattern on it. Not sure if it was straight at one time?

 

[traderoftreasures]

almost looks like an old key tab from a can of spam or tuna

 

[BuckleBoy]

Looks like random sheet brass to me. I find a fair amount of it around mid-1800s sites. No clue what it was used for.

 

[Ice_Water]

Brass thumb pick

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Dats one a dem ol picture hangers dat hang on a rail.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

attaches to a moulding strip.

 

[Breezie]

attaches to a moulding strip.

Breezie

 

[Dano Sverige]

Definate picture hook/hanger.

 

[BuckleBoy]

GREAT ID, BigCy! I will be looking closer at the pieces of sheet brass that I pull from sites.

Cheers,


Buckles

 

[Garabaldi]

Great job bigcy.
Any idea how old it is?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Im not sure the dates these were used. I know they were used in the Victorian era and BuckleBoy finds them at mid 1800 sites so mid1800's to early 1900's is guess. The pic is from 1895 Montgomery Ward catalogue -(mojjax)

I searched back to 2006 and found this

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,32353.0.html

 

[Garabaldi]

Thanks bigcy.

 

[Ice_Water]

Great ID I have never even seen one of those before

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

These would clip on a top moulding rail and the pictures would hang down on different length wire as far as I know. No need to put holes in the wall.

 

[AU Seeker]

Yes picture rails clips, as a finish carpenter I install a lot of picture rail molding, though sometimes it is still used to actually hang pictures, but mostly it is to have the look of the homes built years ago, the link will show modern clips and what picture rail molding looks like.

http://www.govart.com/hardware_rail_hooks.html


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