✅ SOLVED PLEASE Help us identify this brass piece!!!

Marie0424 · Aug 24, 2015

Hi there!!!

Just discovered this piece from an area that used to be a fort from the 1700's occupied by the Danish. Any ideas on what it could be? MUCH APPRECIATED!!! (this was after it was cleaned obviously)

THANKS!!!

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Red James Cash · Aug 24, 2015

looks kind of like something that a door knocker would hit. :dontknow:

Marie0424 · Aug 24, 2015

Hi Red James Cash!

It really does doesn't it!!! Because those sides look like that was where it was drilled into the door!!! Maybe thats it!! Would still love to hear more ideas! :thumbsup:

Erik in NJ · Aug 24, 2015

I think Red James Cash has it right--it appears to be a door knocker striker plate. Here's a modern reproduction I found online without the mounting wings that yours has. Yours appears to be Victorian and probably has nothing to do with the 18th C or the Danish fort. Country and general area it was found in might be of some help in providing a better ID.

basque-man · Aug 24, 2015

Whatever it is, sure looks good and old. :icon_thumright:

SweetLook · Aug 25, 2015

The lid to a tankard?

CRUSADER · Aug 25, 2015

Its an 19th C horse brass bridal mount

mcl · Aug 25, 2015

SweetLook said:
The lid to a tankard?

A lid that closes with a wrench and two bolts?

Erik in NJ · Aug 25, 2015

CRUSADER said:
Its an 19th C horse brass bridal mount

I'm sure you are right as it does resemble a rosette, but most rosettes I have seen have a square loop on the back for a strap to pass thru. Do you mean a bridal boss? I'm not exactly sure where or what a bridal boss did. I know the rosettes were typically on the sides of the horses heads.