✅ SOLVED Unknown brass wheels? Found four of them so far...

[paleomaxx]

These seem to pop up at 1800's home sites every so often and I haven't been able to figure out what they're from. So far I have four that are pretty much the same with the scalloped ridges in the channel and similar in size, but not exactly. All are one-piece construction and look like cast brass.



Have you guys seen these before and know what they were used for?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

They are the ends of the long horizontal wooden dowel inside an antique roll-up windowshade.

Those "axeled brass wheel with 3 holes" objects perplexed we relic-diggers for decades. Let me give public credit to What-Is-It? forum relic-ID helper Taz42o for finding and posting this scan of a page in a late-1800s/early-1900s mail order catalog (Sears & Roebuck, I think).

 

[Deftone]

Nice one TCG. Let's me know I was on the right track in my searches.

 

[paleomaxx]

Thank you so much; I never would have guessed that in a million years! You actually helped me doubly; the end piece that the roller fits into I've also found at another site, so now that's out of the mystery box too!