🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Found at park

Feb 3, 2009
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Delaware ohio
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Fisher 1236 X2, ordered CZ-3D
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You did not tell us the disc's size, nor include a ruler in the photo. But I'll assume it isn't as big as a pancake. It appears to definitely be a hem-weight/curtain-weight. This type was (and probably still is) used in ladies' long skirts (to help resist undergarment exposure by wind-gusts), and the tails of men's long coats, and in the bottom hem of curtains, to keep them hanging neatly straight down. Most I've seen are round, but many square ones were produced in the 20th Century in addition to circular discs This type, a round very plain unmarked lead or lead-alloy disc, has been found in the tails of some civil war officer long-coats. I hope that last sentence won't prompt any Ebay sellers here to start marketing them as a "Confederate Officer Uniform Coat-Tail Weight."
 

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