✅ SOLVED Brooch or Hair Clip?

[sibbley]

Found this piece in a corn field where a 1700's home used to stand. The home stood till the early 2000's. The actual width is 2.18 inch (55.5mm) by 1.69 inch (43.0mm). I think it's copper. Definitely not magnetic. When I first found it, I thought brooch. My wife thinks a Victorian hair clip. Maybe something altogether different. Any ideas?



Thanks for looking...

 

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[pepperj]

I looking at the back I can't see any spots where a clasp/pin was attached.
So I'm siding With your Mrs on this one.

 

[gemee]

Neither. Sash buckle.

 

[pepperj]

Found this piece in a corn field where a 1700's home used to stand. The home stood till the early 2000's. The actual width is 2.18 inch (55.5mm) by 1.69 inch (43.0mm). I think it's copper. Definitely not magnetic. When I first found it, I thought brooch. My wife thinks a Victorian hair clip. Maybe something altogether different. Any ideas?

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Thanks for looking...

Can you see if there was an attachment in the circled areas?

 

[sibbley]

I don't see anywhere that there would have been anything attached.

 

[pepperj]

For this to be a Sash Buckle it would probably fall into one of these 2 examples.
The filigree would lay in the centre or be the outer design.

 

[BuckleBoy]

I’ve dug openwork hair pins like that, where a small wooden dowel would’ve stuck through the openwork surface. Many of them were originally slightly curved to accommodate this. There are period photos that bear this out. It’s been around 2008 since I dug one and that was the last time I tracked this information down.

 

[Gare]

all in all still a nice find

 

[sibbley]

I’ve dug openwork hair pins like that, where a small wooden dowel would’ve stuck through the openwork surface. Many of them were originally slightly curved to accommodate this. There are period photos that bear this out. It’s been around 2008 since I dug one and that was the last time I tracked this information down.

Marked solved as a hair pin. Thank you.