✅ SOLVED Is this a button cover?

[thrillathahunt]

Found at an old home site. It is brass and small, measures 1/2 inch in dia. Ideas?

 

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[mfitzs70]

I was thinking more of a decorative item. I would think it would be put on a for lack of words a strap of material leather/ or woven belt like material...

 

[GaRebel1861]

I was thinking more of a decorative item. I would think it would be put on a for lack of words a strap of material leather/ or woven belt like material...

That's what I think it is too.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Y'all are correct, it is a decoration made for use on leather or a thick fabric. The major ID-clue is the "form of attachment" on the object. In this case, the attaching-method is two identical fold-over tabs of the back of the object. The tabs are fitted through small slits in the leather or fabric, and then get pressed down to crimp the object permanenetly onto the leather/fabric.

Here's a similar brass "decorative" object, except that it has three pressed-down tabs as its attachment-method. It is a horsegear medallion, and although this version is sometimes called a rosette, it technically isn't actually a rosette.

 

[thrillathahunt]

Thank you guys. You're awesome. That makes sense too because I found this there also which I assumed was a bridle rosette.