Brass Thingie - SOLVED

[vic910]

We found this piece of brass yesterday. The edges are rounded except for the cutout. Have no clue what it is. Its thickness is a little less than a nickel. Any ideas It's driving my husband nuts, lol! Thanks for looking!

vicki

 

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[bradyboy]

Re: Brass Thingie

some kind of a gear stop, part of a cog wheel device
the tail looks pretty squared off, so it has a purpose
its pretty small.
brady

 

[High Plains Digger]

Re: Brass Thingie

There are a regular series of scratch marks on it. CSI LV would have had a specific tool and year made for those marks by now.

 

[NaturalJWL]

Re: Brass Thingie

Gear stop looks feasible.

I would go with that.

Creskol has a fantastic record of identifying things though.

I am amazed at the things that get identified.

 

[vic910]

Well guys, we were ALL wrong! It is a surveyor's tag from when they used to survey large tracts of land with chains called Gunter chains. It started losing popularity in approx. 1867 with the advent of steel measuring tapes and was no longer used by 1900. You can read all about it here:

http://www.netmarshall.co.uk/Gunter's Chain.htm

Thanks for all the suggestions though. You guys are great!

vicki

 

[creskol]

Well guys, we were ALL wrong! It is a surveyor's tag from when they used to survey large tracts of land with chains called Gunter chains. It started losing popularity in approx. 1867 with the advent of steel measuring tapes and was no longer used by 1900. You can read all about it here:

http://www.netmarshall.co.uk/Gunter's Chain.htm

Thanks for all the suggestions though. You guys are great!

vicki

Now that is an interesting ID.. How did you discover that? Thanks for the education.

 

[vic910]

Well guys, we were ALL wrong! It is a surveyor's tag from when they used to survey large tracts of land with chains called Gunter chains. It started losing popularity in approx. 1867 with the advent of steel measuring tapes and was no longer used by 1900. You can read all about it here:

http://www.netmarshall.co.uk/Gunter's Chain.htm

Thanks for all the suggestions though. You guys are great!

vicki

Now that is an interesting ID.. How did you discover that? Thanks for the education.

Someone from another detecting forum sent the link to my husband. Don't know how he figured it out but I'm glad he did!

vicki