Brass doodad id needed

[Tigerdude]

Found today.

 

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[Yak1366]

Cool piece. Looks like a plug of some type. Maybe for a gun barrel?? I see a groove on the larger disc that appears same diameter of small disc. Just curious what smaller disc diameter is??

 

[Tigerdude]

Smaller disc is right at .59. Larger disc is at .88

 

[OZARKS]

Cool piece. Looks like a plug of some type. Maybe for a gun barrel?? I see a groove on the larger disc that appears same diameter of small disc. Just curious what smaller disc diameter is??

Vintage sink drain plug for bathtub is my guess... with the rubber stopper having gone between the I piece

 

[Digemnega]

Vintage sink drain plug for bathtub is my guess... with the rubber stopper having gone between the I piece

I am thinking along this line also. This is one of the things I love about metal detecting. Always a mystery to be solved.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your "doodad" appears to be solid-cast brass, and the hole in its top shows rather crudely workmanship of the brass. That indicates pre-civil-war "by hand" manufacture, not machine-made. Also, I think its .88-inch diameter, even if it held a somewhat larger "stopper," is WAY small for a bathtub drainplug.

Did rubber drainplugs even exist in the 1700s/early-1800s?

I very much doubt that your find has been correctly identified.

 

[OZARKS]

Your "doodad" appears to be solid-cast brass, and the hole in its top shows it is rather crudely worked brass. That indicates pre-civil-war "by hand" manufacture, not machine-made. Also, I think its .88-inch diameter, even if it held a somewhat larger "stopper," is WAY small for a bathtub drainplug.

Did rubber drainplugs even exist in the 1700s/early-1800s?

Let me politely suggest you remove the "Solved" green-check, because I very much doubt that your find has been correctly identified.

Where are you getting your date ranges, he never said its from 1700s or 1800s site, and you can see where something like a metal chain wallowed out the hole...possible a sink drain as well...

 

[Kray Gelder]

Where are you getting your date ranges, he never said its from 1700s or 1800s site, and you can see where something like a metal chain wallowed out the hole...possible a sink drain as well...

Did you read Cannonball Guy's post? He told you how he got the date range. Jeez.

 

[vhs07]

Where are you getting your date ranges, he never said its from 1700s or 1800s site, and you can see where something like a metal chain wallowed out the hole...possible a sink drain as well...

I would think if a chain had "wallowed" out the hole, the wear should be at the top of the hole and not the bottom.

 

[Kray Gelder]

I'm going to stick my neck out and say...bell clapper.

 

[OZARKS]

Did you read Cannonball Guy's post? He told you how he got the date range. Jeez.

to state a date range on something you dont even know what it is, makes me question where you got the dates from...

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The "construction" of an unknown object's body (especially, metal ones) can often give us valid clues to its age, and even its identity. What is the metal? Is it solid-cast? Crudely or skillfully cast? Or machine-rolled? Or machine-stamped? Or "hand-tooled"? Crudely or skillfully tooled? A very good example of that deductive-reasoning process is time-dating metal buttons (which I've been doing for 40+ years), but of course it is useful for many other objects.

 

[Tigerdude]

I appreciate everyone's input. The only clue I can give you is that it was an 1830's plantation site that had human habitation until the 1940's and was also a campsite for a group of yankee soldiers. In south Louisiana. Happy Mardi Gras everyone!