Its small, what is it?

[mikusek]

It's small, what is it?

I found this with my DFX today. It was about 8" deep. I couldn't find it with the White's BE II, it has to touch it to alert, but the Garrett PP located it an inch away and homed in on it. It registered as a dime on the VDI, but as you can see, it is much smaller diameter and a tad thicker.

My first guess was an end for a draw string of some sort, maybe off a "gold" dust pouch(I would like to think), but that's little more than a complete guess and probably wrong. It is not magnetic, silvery color when scratched on the edge, lightweight, so it is probably aluminum and not an end keeper for a gold dust pouch.

 

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[Montana Jim]

Re: It's small, what is it?

It's a dress or cuff hem weight, most likely lead.

 

[mikusek]

Re: It's small, what is it?

I suspect you are correct. I did a Google search for "old dress hem weight" and this photo from BobinSouthVA came up, although his is much bigger than the one I found, otherwise they look virtually identical.

Thanks, I will mark it solved.