🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Brass Tag

[vhs07]

Looking for ideas on the 2" square brass tag. The font looks old. It's seems too large for a tool tag and the hole looks too small for a livestock ear tag. Also the square corners should rule out an ear tag. Found in a coastal county in Texas.

 

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[GlowingArtist]

Is it leather? 1925-1950 type face(not technically a font). Machine cut, so maybe using the old lettering deliberately- even very recently? Could be for a key chain

 

[villagenut]

Let's get this clear...it is brass, it has older type numbers, looking like second half of 1800s up until 1900, it has an old nice patina....cool find,cant say more except that I have done.

 

[vhs07]

Is it leather? 1925-1950 type face(not technically a font). Machine cut, so maybe using the old lettering deliberately- even very recently? Could be for a key chain

It's brass

 

[CRUSADER]

Tool Check?

 

[Gare]

My guess is also a tool check. Let me also say this you did a FANTASTIC JOB of taking pictures so we could visualize the size thanks

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I have seen numbered brass tags on power/telephone poles so that could be a possibility.