✅ SOLVED Brass in the swamp - Anybody got an idea?

[parsonwalker]

Found this among CW artillery frags and 3-ring bullets. Any educated guesses?



Scale: 2" long and about a half inch wide at widest point. Two rivets once held it to something . . .

 

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[jewelerguy]

it kinda sorta reminds me of the hook for a bayonet frog, but it's a little too fancy for that

 

[Anduril]

Whatever you call the thing that ties the rope off on a flagpole. (?)

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Agreed, cleat of some sort, possibly marine given the brass.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Diffinately a rope tie off of some kind.

 

[etex]

Bayonet scabbard hanger

 

[ironhorse]

Bayonet scabbard hanger

Bingo!

 

[bradyboy]

agree with the cleat idea
Brady

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Etex is correct, it is a RevWar British bayonet scabbard frog hook. I remember it from a long-ago relic ID question here in the What-Is-It forum. See the photo below, posted back then by T-Net memberFMarion2ndRegSC.

I mean the following as a compliment for a good guess, not as an insult. Anduril made a good logical guess... but at only 2 inches long and 1/2-inch wide, this object is too small and weak to function as a rope cleat or even a cord cleat. It's difficult to accurately guess the ID of an object with nothing else in the photo for size-comparison. Anduril was right, it sure does look like a cleat... but it's too small for that.

 

[parsonwalker]

Etex is correct, it is a RevWar British bayonet scabbard frog hook. I remember it from a long-ago relic ID question here in the What-Is-It forum. See the photo below, posted back then by T-Net memberFMarion2ndRegSC.

I mean the following as a compliment for a good guess, not as an insult. Anduril made a good logical guess... but at only 2 inches long and 1/2-inch wide, this object is too small and weak to function as a rope cleat or even a cord cleat. It's difficult to accurately guess the ID of an object with nothing else in the photo for size-comparison. Anduril was right, it sure does look like a cleat... but it's too small for that.

Pete, that is TOO cool! Now I think about the story. My Gosh! This was an 1862 battle, so early war. Did some ole boy show up with a British bayonet that grandad had captured in the Revolution?! Or was this just 18th century surplus bought from a sutler or imported? Thanks for making the story MUCH cooler!