✅ SOLVED Is this Military Related?

[jwarner51]

I have found a one of two of these before in 1800's camps and ghost towns out in Nevada. I have spoken with other detectorists who have found them and no one knows what they are. They are solid lead and this one particularly has the letters "SC" on it and on the back you can barely read "32". Are they military related? Any help is appreciated.

 

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[mick56]

Known as a hem weight. They were sown into the bottom hem of a woman's skirt, to prevent it from blowing up in the wind.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

They're curtain or hem weights.... Not military though, sorry.

 

[TNGUNS]

Sorry, but gotta say I disagree. The hem weights were also used in the front corners of dress coat uniforms. Do not know how far back, but were in WW1 era. The WW1 era are identical to what you have found and have seen so many posted and questioned as coming from CW era sites that I would love to hear input from some of our experts. HH

Mark


Edit

Adding a quote from TheCannonballGuy found from earlier on a Tnet forum

There's no such thing as a "Union or Confederate" hem/dress/curtain/coat-tail weight. They've been in existence since at least the early-1800s and are still being manufactured (in the same shape) today. They were/are primarily manufactured for use in civilian clothing (mostly in Ladies' coa and dress-skirts) and in window curtains. A few have probably also been used in the coat-tail of military coats. That slim possibility does not make these weights we dig a "Union" or a "Confederate" hem-weight -- nearly all of them were used in civilian clothing and window curtains.

 

[jwarner51]

Thank you everyone. I've found these with no writing before and had no idea where to start. Thanks alot.