🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Brass tag??

[tinner]

Hello everyone,
Wow, I realy thought I'd found something when I dug this brass coin-sized Piece up!! Turns out it's just a round piece of brass with a "W" stamped on either side of it. It's about the size of an american nickel. Any Ideas? I found it on an old homestead near some corrals.

 

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[Mud Hut]

My guess is a simple single letter love token.

 

[invent4hir]

May want to look up who lived at the homestead as one of there first/last names began w/ a "W". It would be cool if they were still alive! Then you could find out "the rest of the story" - as Paul Harvey said.

 

[Almy]

No hole in it for it to be strung and the "W" is stamped with heavy blow from a machine-made die. Not sure what those facts are consistent with. Interesting piece.

 

[CREATURE850]

Hello everyone,
Wow, I realy thought I'd found something when I dug this brass coin-sized Piece up!! Turns out it's just a round piece of brass with a "W" stamped on either side of it. It's about the size of an american nickel. Any Ideas? I found it on an old homestead near some corrals.

I was going to say laundry tag but them not having the hole to tie to the bag..not sure

 

[tinner]

No hole in it for it to be strung and the "W" is stamped with heavy blow from a machine-made die. Not sure what those facts are consistent with. Interesting piece.

Not sure either. I believe it was struck by hand as the W on the one side is not centered and not an even stamp. The homestead is early 1900's. the token was about 5" deep.

 

[tinner]

May want to look up who lived at the homestead as one of there first/last names began w/ a "W". It would be cool if they were still alive! Then you could find out "the rest of the story" - as Paul Harvey said.

For sure, what's left of the homestead is a foundation and an area where an outhouse was.
I think the homestead is early 1900's as I found a 1915 penny in the area of where the barn once stood.
Good Idea to find a name but I doubt they're still around.

 

[tinner]

I wonder if It could be a game piece of some sort??

 

[invent4hir]

For sure, what's left of the homestead is a foundation and an area where an outhouse was.
I think the homestead is early 1900's as I found a 1915 penny in the area of where the barn once stood.
Good Idea to find a name but I doubt they're still around.

tinner,

Yes the original owner probably isn't still around - but some of their kin might be. Start by looking at old maps & censuses. A few years ago I found an WWII Army Air Corp locket. Sure enough the woman who owned it had passed - but I located one of her sons 3 states away - who was still alive, so I sent it to him. He replied that he gave it to his granddaughter.