Hat pin? Mourning pin?

[CoilyGirl]

I dug this yesterday in a hunted out area on the lines of the Battle of Nashville. It looks to be pretty heavy brass, about the size of a quarter, maybe smaller. I can see a little shine underneath. It looks to me like there could have been an attachment pin at one time that has broken off. Any help would be appreciated,thanks. We haven’t been out all Summer until yesterday and even though it was hotter than blue blazes and the only other thing I dug was a bullet, it was good to be back. Sorry for the sideways picture.

 

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[Breezie]

Hey CG, I don't think it is mourning jewelry. Most of the Victorian Mourning jewelry I've seen has had a black stone or human hair. Does it look like a stone was in the middle?

Neat find
Breezie

 

[CoilyGirl]

Breezie, the “frame’ around the detailed part of it almost looks like a picture frame. If a stone set in it it is long gone. I d0nt know if soldiers would have carried something like that though with a picture of a loved one. Whatever it is has been pretty much flattened. I’ll post a picture of the other side.

 

[CoilyGirl]

Here’s what I call the front side. You can see the part where the pin has broken off.

 

[Breezie]

After seeing the back and because of its size, I'm leaning more toward a stone than a photography. Tintypes were around the mid 1850s to after the war in the late 1860s. Of course tintype were still being made up to the turn of the century and more.
Breezie