✅ SOLVED Display case info needed

[B|lker]

I`m putting a display case together for a gentle man who allowed Bob and I permission to Relic hunt on his newly purchased home built in 1860.

Found my share by listening to my AT PRO in all metal mode.


The home has a kitchen with a living space that is separate from the main house.
It also has another detached living space approximately 150 feet from the main house and plenty of unsafe to enter structures on the property.
Unfortunately someone had been there before us looking for coins i assume and left remnants of their diggings laying on the ground at the base of trees and hanging in the branches of the trees.
A modern penny, nickle and dime were the only coins found.
The 2 larger buttons are Tombac`s which i was told were made between 1790 and 1840.
A large stove plate cover, plow tip, saddle buckle?, flashlight base?, squished tea ball and a lead plate with threads on top for a cap are cool too.

I need any info anyone can spare to date the small button and some kind of plate for clothing thingy?
I was a little harsh cleaning them.
Yes the name is Hancock on the plate but i don`t think it is as old as John Hancock the president.
Thanks in Advance Everyone
B|lkers and Bobs finds in Henderson NC.

 

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[Ant]

My guess on the first item:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=318386&d=1332403220

 

[SkaBa]

The top item looks like a needle threader missing the wire loop at bottom.

 

[stefen]

The top item looks like a needle threader missing the wire loop at bottom.

This is the second one posted i've seen in the last two days...

 

[QUICKSILVER (appletree)]

thats what i was going to say! the top item looks like a needle threader or thread cutter of some sort. looks too flimsy to be a buckle or clasp for suspenders or overalls

 

[B|lker]

Thanks for everyone`s ideas.
I`ll check out the needle threaders to see if i can find something like it.
Anyone have a guestimate on the date of the small button?
Thanks,
Bill in Raleigh, NC

 

[QUICKSILVER (appletree)]

chances are thats an underwear button and my guess on years used were 1850's to to the 1880's give or take a few decades here and there

 

[B|lker]

chances are that's an underwear button and my guess on years used were 1850's to to the 1880's give or take a few decades here and there

Thanks SkaBa and QUICKSILVER on the underwear button date ideas.
Found out there was a clamp on hand operated sewing machine made by Hancock which was patented from 1862 to 1874 so it`s a good possibility the plate is a needle threader.

 

[BigWaveDave]

John Hancock was a president?

 

[B|lker]

John Hancock was a president?

Yes in 1775 and i couldn't find a picture of him with a mustache.
Since the house wasn't built until 1860 or so i assume it`s from the company that made the sewing machine.