Flintlock inlay / side plate or just wishful thinking?

[relic lover]

This came from a site that spans the whole of the eighteen-hundreds. It is brass and super thin. The little marks that look like solder stick to a magnet. It just seems strangely asymmetrical to me. Could it be from a Flintlock or is it something from a steamer trunk or something else entirely?

 

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[BosnMate]

Can't really tell from the picture, but the pins look like they hook over, if so it was probably on leather. Decorations on flintlocks were nailed on, so there would be holes instead of the soldered pins. I've done tons of research, Kindig and others, and the pins weren't soldered on any of the decorations. Screws were hand made, one at a time, iron, never brass, so they used more little pins and nails than screws. You find a flint lock with little brass screws, it's a modern repo.

 

[BosnMate]

All that I just said, I got to thinking. With the hole in it, it could be a side plate where the lock screw passes through, and the soldered pins could have been done after it was built, sometime later in a repair. Hard to say for sure.

 

[baspinall]

Looks like a furniture piece to me.

 

[trapperart]

No help with ID but it's a cool find congrats

 

[DownNDirty]

Is that made of iron or brass? Most of the side plates were brass.

 

[relic lover]

Is that made of iron or brass? Most of the side plates were brass.

Brass but very thin

 

[Fullstock]

Not from a gun, looks to a part of a drawer pull.

 

[relic lover]

Not from a gun, looks to a part of a drawer pull.

Yes I see it now I think you got it thanks.

 

[CRUSADER]

Looks like a furniture piece to me.

agreed