Possible Civil War Cartridge Box Percussion Cap Pouch Brass Flap Fastener

[bonepicker]

My civil war huntin buddy asked me to post these pictures for an ID.
It came from a civil war site where he recently dug a breast plate and a lot of dropped and fired Minnie balls.
My guess is the flap fastener for a cartridge or perscussion cap box.
Thanks for looking.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Sorry to have to disappoint, but your friend's find is not a civil war cartridge-box flap closure finial. You can see an exact match for it among the "collar buttons" in this scan of a page in the 1909 Sears-&-Roebuck mailorder catalog.

Although your friend's find is shown in the 1909 catalog, it is one of the very simply constructed forms of collar-button, which does date back to the civil war era. The more exotically-constructed forms shown in the catalog are postwar.

Those "collar buttons" were used to hold the collar of men's fancy "dressup shirts" in the proper position.

Credit must be given to our fellow What-Is-It forum relic identification helper BigCypressHunter, for being the original poster of that Sears catalog scan showing the various forms of men's dress-shirt "collar buttons."

 

[CRUSADER]

Yeap, I call them collar studs, same difference.

 

[bonepicker]

Thanks again Cannonballguy. You rock.