A few Brandy Station VA. CW what is its

[Woodland Detectors]

(1)The first, I was told to be of an officers uniform. ?
(2) A confederate soldier sling buckle ?

The last photo is lead.

Please chime in on the others. Thanks!
Is the last photo a Sword Hangar?

 

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[floodcitykid]

My guess would be some type of braiding for the brass/copper

sling buckle for the iron is likely, probably confederate

lead could be improvisedf fishing weight, soldeirs on both sides carved bullets and made things out of them like fishing weights, chess pieces etc.

Nice finds, Brandy Sta has been hit hard over the yeras you are fortunate to find anything.

 

[kuger]

I dont think the iron piece is gun afiliated,as I have found them,and the piece with the tweezers is from a pocket knife

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Item 1:
Definitely a piece from a gold-gilted, stamped-brass, US officer's shoulder-insignia. The fine design on it is meant to immitate the look of embroidery ...thus this type is refreed to as "false embroidery" because it is made of metal instead of thread & fabric.

Item2:
The iron buckle seems horsegear-related rather than from a soldier's personal equipment.

Item 3:
I agree with Kuger... definitely a brass sideplate-end from a pocketknife.

Item 4:
If that item is made of lead, it has a very strange & unusual patina for lead. Has the item been washed/scrubbed as clean as possible? The red clay at Brandy Station doesn't usually cling tightly to lead.

Additional photos, shot after additional cleaning, if that can be done), showing the item from different angles might help.

Going by the scale of the penny in the photo, the item looks a bit too large to be a bullet.

 

[Breezie]

The piece in pic #1 looks to be part of an antique picture frame. Breezie

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

This reply is mostly for Woodland Detectors, so he can see an intact (but non-dug) example of the piece he dug. But the info is also for Breezie, in case she is ever fortunate enough to dig one. Hey, she dug a North Carolina State Seal button, so who knows what other Military insignia might be in the ground around there.

Yes, it does somewhat resemble a piece of picture-frame ...and in a sense, it is a kind of "frame" around the officer's bars of rank ...but:
http://howardlanham.tripod.com/link55.htm
The first photo at the above link shows an actual thread/fabric embroidered civil war US Army 1st-Lieutenant shoulder-strap insignia. The second photo shows the "metallic false embroidery" version.

Here's a photo of another example, this time a 2nd-Lieutenant's, showing a very-slightly different pattern of goldplated stamped-brass metal false-embroidery on civil war officer shoulder-straps.

 

[Monty]

When in doubt just call it junque. Never say junk or crap, it's always Crappe'. Monty

 

[DirtDigler]

I think the biggest single lesson we can learn from this forum is, don't throw it away until you find out what it is. I have thrown several things away only to find they were nice artifacts later. So ditch the pull tabs and shotgun shells, and pocket that strange brass thingee, ya just never know.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Mike I think your Lead piece is a blum bob, the bottom is slightly larger than the top, could be from any date range

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