Looking for a little help with these items?

[Streetdoc77]

The first two little clips i have not idea what they could be maybe some type of item for clothing or something. The other item I am pretty sure is maybe an old spur but it is sold metal all the way around and most spurs i have saw were just metal in certain locations. I would be interested in a little help on these items and all help and ideas are greatly appreciated.

Lance McConkey
Englewood TN

OBTW> I found these after a guy renting my dads farm subsoiled and dug up a bunch of old bottles and other stuff. We are going back Saturday with our detectors and seeing what else is there.

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

The first pic is easy. They are Hutchinson stoppers. http://mysite.verizon.net/vonmechow/closures.htm

 

[oldsledz]

I think the 2nd item may be part of a pulley with the wheel missing.

 

[ManBearPig]

#2 looks like an old caster wheel minus the wheel and axle to me.

 

[diggummup]

#2 looks like an old caster wheel minus the wheel and axle to me.

That was my first thought too.

 

[Streetdoc77]

What do you mean an old caster wheel. What could or would it be used for? Finding all of this stuff has been very strange. My dad also found an old sign just like the picture I am going to put on here. The sign was pulled up by the subsoiler so it is bent but has cleaned up nicely I will try to get pictures of it up and on here sometime tonight or this weekend. However here is a picture a sign just like the one we found.

Lance

 

[Streetdoc77]

OH and by the way,

Thank you all for the help with this stuff.

 

[ManBearPig]

Something like this,

It could have been used on a number of things

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

It could be a castor wheel. I think the axle is there (bent).

 

[oldsledz]

 

[bradyboy]

second item sure looks like a spur
They were usually forged In steel and then guild ed in silver or gold
I have several of this type from NM that are rusted but still have some silver and gold on the finish
Brady

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I think we need more pics of the castor/pulley looking item and brady it would be nice to post your spur pic if its a match... just my opinion.

 

[Streetdoc77]

I will post some more pics of the other item on Monday. I am working my second job as a paramedic this weekend so will be home Monday afternoon.

Lance

 

[bradyboy]

What I have is not a match.
The point I was trying to make is -
That spurs were mostly forged and then the silver was applied, as far as I know
I could be wrong.
What I have is a spur that was forged and has areas of the silver guilding
I'm basing this on my many trips to Sante Fe and all the old spurs that can be found in shops that I observed.
Brady

 

[kuger]

Don't believe it is a spur. Old Spurs are typically silver or brass and are not that thick. Will keep looking. Cool finds though!


Nice ID BCH!

I have never seen a solid silver spur.As Brady said they were were sometimes plated.I have found many 19th cen. spurs and a couple 18th cent. Spanish,and all of them are iron............and some rather,"hefty",I am not saying the one in question is a spur

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

Do you have dimensions, by any chance of that "spur-like" object?

Back in the antique-type days, some people used to wear real wide spurs. So did some others. But, would need some reference point.

Thanks,

B

By the way, not all spurs were silver or bronze or whatever. Poor folks had spurs that were just metal.

Being its after midnight, the memory is a little slow - if I recall, they used to call them farmer spurs, or sheepherders spurs and there was some called a Crockett spur - they were wide, too, and not all had silver or nickle or anything other than metal.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I dont know why silver/gold plating was even mentioned because there is none on this object in question (as far as I know).

 

[Arid-Zone-A-seeker]

Streetdoc,,,, I believe this is a Wireholder clevis for an electrical insulator, the sharp thing sticking out was a lag type screw,,, we used to call them pound-in clevis, cause you pounded them into the side of house's or even trees.

There are 2 inch and 3 inch porclen spools that fit in-between the flanges.
Arid.

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

The silver thing was mentioned only because Kieth-Tx said old spurs are typically silver or brass and not that thick.

I was just pointing out that many spurs were not silver or brass, and several types are thick and wide. That's all.

Beth

 

[Silver Searcher]

Item 2 looks like a spur to me two


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