✅ SOLVED A Buckle and some sort of metal "bead"?

[myrtlebeach]

I found these two items today and was hoping someone could help me with identification and history. The bead seems to have a groove inside of it. The buckle seems pretty plain. Thanks in advance!

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

The buckle is from the end of a thick strap. Its form is too "generic" to have a more-specific ID than that. The same form, but a smaller size, was on Korean War era US army backpacks.

Although similar-looking ones date much earlier, I believe yours is from the 20th-Century, because it has sharply formed 90-degree edges and internal angles (as if it was constructed out of boards). Earlier ones were more crudely cast.

The bar on it is "back-set" from the frame to allow one thick strap to be attached to the end of the frame and another thick strap to be fed through the frame, atop the bar.

 

[myrtlebeach]

The buckle is a from the end of a thick strap. Its form is too "generic" to have a more-specific ID than that. The same form, but a smaller size, was on Korean War era US army backpacks.

Although similar-looking ones date much earlier, I believe yours is from the 20th-Century, because it has sharply formed 90-degree edges and internal angles (as if it was constructed out of boards). Earlier ones were more crudely cast.

The bar on it is "back-set" from the frame to allow one thick strap to be attached to the end of the frame and another thick strap to be fed through the frame, atop the bar.

Thanks Cannonballguy

 

[CC Hunter]

The "bead" is a lead weight from a casting net used in fishing. These are commonly seen recovered from earlier sites dating from the 18th and 19th Centuries along the Eastern Atlantic Coast, and other areas.

Quite often these are misidentified relics found by metal detectorists, attributed as being "whizzing" musket balls, holed musket balls, etc..

Cast net - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


CC Hunter

 

[myrtlebeach]

The "bead" is a lead weight from a casting net used in fishing. These are commonly seen recovered from earlier sites dating from the 18th and 19th Centuries along the Eastern Atlantic Coast, and other areas.

Quite often these are misidentified relics found by metal detectorists, attributed as being "whizzing" musket balls, holed musket balls, etc..

Cast net - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


CC Hunter

Thanks CC Hunter. I found it on the east coast less than a half mile from the ocean at a major inlet used from the late 1700's until present.