✅ SOLVED Cannot ID small metal item found at 1800's house

[bobclouser]

Hi everyone -- this is my first post and question. I've been detecting for 2+ years, with my White's Coinmaster. I recently found a small flat brass object at a house from the early 1800's. I think it's some kind of hook or clasp for suspender or gaters or girdle. It has some writing on it: "IMPROVED", "PAT. JUNE 27.98", and finally text that I cannot definitely make out: "THE LINDSAY" (I think that is what it says: the L, NDS, and Y are definitel, the other letters I am not positive about. I wonder if the patent refers to "1898"? It's flat, about 1/32" thick, 1-1/4" long, 3/4" at widest. Please see the attached photo.

Thanks for any ideas,
Bob

 

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[toolmanbutch]

My Guess is Suspenders.
Toolman Butch

 

[Mud Hut]

Looks like a garter belt hook

 

[50bmg]

looks like a clasp for a strap from a pair of overalls

 

[jewelerguy]

I agree with mud hut

 

[jude061]

I'm with mud hut: garter belt part. I found two within ten inches of each other on one hunt.

 

[capsmith]

I think I am with mud hut. I think I have unhooked some of them , at the time I cant remember why.

 

[50bmg]

not saying I'm right but think about it this way
1 3/8" x 3/4" on the clasp makes for a awful big garter belt

 

[Bruce R]

Does the length of the garter clip indicate the length of the legs??

 

[50bmg]

not on any that I have ever seen

 

[BosnMate]

Here are a couple of pictures showing the garter clip and how it's used to hold up ladies stockings. Men might have used them also, because I hunted an old sheep herders camp in the remote desert of Nevada, and I found a garter clip just like yours. I doubt there was a woman living out there with the shepherd, so that means he used it on a garter to hold his socks, or he might have dressed in drag, which conjures up a funny picture in my dirty old mind. I know my mother used them to hold up her nylons when I was a kid.


The arrow points to the clip.


These clips have the rubber button that goes inside the stocking and the clip fits over them.

Here are some on a vintage corset.

 

[toolmanbutch]

Hmmmm Garter Belt/Sheep? Kinky.

Here are a couple of pictures showing the garter clip and how it's used to hold up ladies stockings. Men might have used them also, because I hunted an old sheep herders camp in the remote desert of Nevada, and I found a garter clip just like yours. I doubt there was a woman living out there with the shepherd, so that means he used it on a garter to hold his socks, or he might have dressed in drag, which conjures up a funny picture in my dirty old mind. I know my mother used them to hold up her nylons when I was a kid.

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The arrow points to the clip.

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These clips have the rubber button that goes inside the stocking and the clip fits over them.

Here are some on a vintage corset.

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[BosnMate]

Hmmmm Garter Belt/Sheep? Kinky.

Yeah, you gotta wonder. Being a dirty minded old man I conjure all sorts of pictures in my mind.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

not saying I'm right but think about it this way
1 3/8" x 3/4" on the clasp makes for a awful big garter belt

Big boned girl.

 

[DCMatt]

Research this:

Combined garment and hose support
Patent US 605108 A

This patent was filed by Cora A. Weber Lindsay in 1898.

 

[bobclouser]

Wow -- that seems like it's it! Patent date was JUNE 1898, and the name is right too. Thanks!!