✅ SOLVED What is it detector find???

[heybubbajay]

This metal item was found by an old homestead in SC.

It has a design that looks to me like a crown and the initials W R and the word PATENT...


Any takers

 

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[kuger]

Its a Padlock key hole cover

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Specifically, it is a brass keyhole cover from a 1700s-to-1800s version of British-made padlock. It shows the British royal crown, with the letters "WR" representing King William IV, who reigned from 1830 to 1837 (which dates your padlock keyhole cover to those years). Here's a photo showing a brass keyhole cover on the padlock.

 

[vpnavy]

Nice find but you should get back in the hole and find the rest of it heybubbajay.

 

[kuger]

...thanks CBG,I am having issue either with my computer or something changed with this site...again....

 

[CRUSADER]

Yeap a Willy the IV.

 

[heybubbajay]

great! Thanks for sharing your knowledge & helping me identify this relic!

 

[SCDigginWithAK]

I'm in SC too! I have found one of these in the low country. Great find!