Found this gold mining. Please help identify

[mytimetoshine]

So I was up in gold country on Saturday and found this in my box. My first reaction was cocking mechanism on an old revolver. Several others have said trigger and one person said chain saw link..lol

Any help would be appreciated.

 

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[tamrock]

Could be a trigger-pawl. Kind of looks like something from an old gun Trigger Function and Terminology

 

[can]

Maybe a push down latch? or a trigger

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Gate latch

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Part of an antique cabinet latch, not an exact match, but similar to this one..... Does kinda look like a trigger though...

 

[Channon]

I'm voting tigger on this one. Obviously they're a little different going from model to model but I think it's an old rifle trigger.

 

[Tony in SC]

What is it made of? Tony

 

[joee5]

Piece of metal

 

[tamrock]

Looks like a pot metal cast to me and I would think a real gun trigger would be a little bigger and made of harder metal then pot metal, if that's what it is??. I started looking at all the old BB gun patents and drawings I could find with ease and see some triggers on those are made of cast and others of formed sheet metal as a Daisy BB gun is made like. Some BB and air gun triggers look close to this thing, but no cigar on a perfect example to prove this is a gun trigger of any kind. Could be just a thumb press latch of some kind also?. It also reminds me of a D-Handle thumb push valve like on a Ingersoll- Rand rivet buster tool, but those are bigger and heavier made then this thing that seems a little small for most big boy guns, so maybe it came from a toy cap gun

 

[NOLA_Ken]

The thing that says "not a gun part" to me is the fact that the hole in it is not perfectly round. The LAST thing you want in a gun trigger is for it to be able to wiggle around on the pin or screw that it pivots on.....

 

[marion moore]

I would say its a thumb release level for something, the top part is larger at the end so you could push it down with your thumb.

that my though and I'm sticking to it.

marion