✅ SOLVED HELP! Lots of mystery finds today!!!!

[mangum]

Hello all! Had a great day field hunting today. I need some serious help IDing this stuff... (Never found this many what's it's in a day!) I'm also posting a pic of all my finds today for any size reference help. I've found items ranging in from the 1700s to early 1900s at this site. Thanks in advance & HH!!!

 

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[kuger]

Rivets,half a padlock....and the last piece will be IDED,I am having a senior moment as to what it is

 

[old digger]

Photo's 9-12 is most likely a faucet handle.

 

[old digger]

The Smith Durham item is a bib overhaul rivit snap.

 

[creskol]

Both of these are singletree tips. The one on the bottom would have had a cockeye hook screwed through the small end.

 

[kuger]

....yep,I knew Rob, would nail it.

I was thinking S.D. had something to do with clothing too Old Digger,but couldnt find anything?

 

[plymouthian12]

picture 6-7 look like a piece that ive seen to open very high windows to turn the worm gear

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Mangum, the brass rivet is for holding two thick pieces of leather together. Most seem to have been used on horseharness leather, but could be from many other leather items such as saddlebags, pouches, suitcases, and belts.

The small brass object with a circulat flat disc and a narrow rectangular slot on its other side resembles a rivet, but isn't that. Seen 'em before but can't recall what it is.

I agree with Old Digger, the Smith Durham object is a bibb overalls snap or rivet-button. I also agree with him that the object in photos 9 through 12 is a faucet-handle.

I agree with Kuger, object on the left in photos 2 & 3 is a sideplate from a padlock.

I agree with Creskol about the object in photos 6 though 8, except for a slight difference in its name. It is shown in an 1895 Sears & Roebuck mail-order catalog as a "Whiffletree Tip." It had a slot for a leather strap on its smaller end, but the slot on yours has been bashed-down closed. See the catalog scan, below. A photo shows an undamaged dug one, and another photo shows a modern one in use on a buggy's whiffletree/singletree.

 

[BosnMate]

Both of these are singletree tips. The one on the bottom would have had a cockeye hook screwed through the small end.

I knew I'd see it somewhere but was having a senior moment and couldn't place it.

 

[old digger]

I knew I'd see it somewhere but was having a senior moment and couldn't place it.

Good ID, Know the feeling.

 

[mangum]

Guys, thanks for all of the help! Glad I got a positive ID on the Whiffletree tip, I would have never known. Some guys on the today's finds forum thought it might be a flag pole topper but this ID is spot on! All of these are solved with the exception of the triangular brass rivet looking thing. Cannonballguy, if you remember what it is let me know. Awesome job guys & HH!!!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Some diggers have been calling the Whiffletree Tip (which is a buggy/carriage part) a "Confederate flagstaff tip" for about 40 years. But as the scan shows, it was sold in the 1895 Sears & Roebuck mail order catalog ...and in four different sizes. None have turned up in civil war era (1861-65) catalogs, so it seems pretty definitely to be strictly a late-1800s to early 20th-century relic ...and not a Military one.

 

[mangum]

Some diggers have been calling the Whiffletree Tip (which is a buggy/carriage part) a "Confederate flagstaff tip" for about 40 years. But as the scan shows, it was sold in the 1895 Sears & Roebuck mail order catalog ...and in four different sizes. None have turned up in civil war era (1861-65) catalogs, so it seems pretty definitely to be strictly a late-1800s to early 20th-century relic ...and not a Military one.

The ID is dead on (awesome job). It's exact, even to the fact that it was silver plated (some of the plating is still left on this as noted) This is a cool find, glad I know what it is for sure.

 

[old digger]

Guys, thanks for all of the help! Glad I got a positive ID on the Whiffletree tip, I would have never known. Some guys on the today's finds forum thought it might be a flag pole topper but this ID is spot on! All of these are solved with the exception of the triangular brass rivet looking thing. Cannonballguy, if you remember what it is let me know. Awesome job guys & HH!!!

I'm thinking that your last mystery (first photo/on right) could be a knife guard, Eating utensil.

 

[mangum]

I'm thinking that your last mystery (first photo/on right) could be a knife guard, Eating utensil.

I think you may be right, that makes sense