River with star

[Walt82]

Found this river? It has a star on it , any ideas.

 

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[Walt82]

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Horse tack rivet?, unusual as it looks like it was not installed

 

[Walt82]

Dadgum auto correct, Rivet not river.

 

[vpnavy]

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[TheCannonballGuy]

PA-dirt_NC-sand's answer is correct, but not broad enough. Those copper rivets were used on horse-harness but also many other leather objects, such as luggage. Ones with a raised 5-point star on the disc was made by the Plume & Atwood Manufacturing Company of Waterbury CT, reportedly from the 1920s through 1955, when a flood almost destroyed the manufacturing facility, which eventually got sold to a new owner. The star-mark rivets might date back earlier than the 1920s, but not from the civil war, because Plume & Atwood was first incorporated in 1880. Credit for the star-marked rivet ID goes to my esteemed colleague Nhbenz, who posted the attached photos here in the What-Is-It? forum several years ago.

Note that some have a raised anchor on the disc, also from the Plume & Atwood Mfg. Co. box, are shown in the closeup photo.

 

[sutphin]

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