More finds from a union blockhouse location

[alabama11]

The field was hay cut and so I hurried out there found two bullets. Then they plowed it and I hurried back and found more things, but when I returned the next day they had it planted. Some farmers don't sit still. I posted the Memphis & Charleston luggage tag on Todays Finds yesterday. The track is about 400 yards away. My question is what is the brass piece in row 2 on the right end? This makes the third one of those I have found. Anyone seen this before? Wondering if a small field piece may have had a percussion cap? Thanks for looking.

 

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[Tnmountains]

Part of a Knapp sack hook or river. Great hunt!

 

[alabama11]

Thankyou Tnmountains.

 

[Davers]

The field was hay cut and so I hurried out there found two bullets. Then they plowed it and I hurried back and found more things, but when I returned the next day they had it planted. Some farmers don't sit still. I posted the Memphis & Charleston luggage tag on Todays Finds yesterday. The track is about 400 yards away. My question is what is the brass piece in row 2 on the right end? This makes the third one of those I have found. Anyone seen this before?View attachment 1453127 Wondering if a small field piece may have had a percussion cap? Thanks for looking.

Love the Baggage Tag & the Heart , are you talking about the piece (2 ed row Baggage tab being 1st row)?

If so I'm thinking Brass Jacket from a Rifle Bullet , they sound so good ..... More weight for the scrap brass bucket .

Now the piece on the bottom right looks to be a Percussion Cap But

Ill take underwear buttons to , 3 ringer rocks , as do Small cal O Ball's .
Thx for the pic's.

Looking closer I'm 99% wrong on the far bottom right piece.
Still good stuff.

 

[luvsdux]

I'm with Davers. My best thought is the brass jacket from a modern bullet.
luvdux

 

[Tnmountains]

Top row far right is a percussion cap. Just finding any that survived is kinda rare

 

[alabama11]

It seems so big and thick. The ones i have seen were so small, maybe those were pistol types and the one I found is for a rifle.
The lower right object Davers mentioned was a 44 or 45 bullet. I think its modern.

 

[Tnmountains]

I took the one like your and fitted them on a nipple of a period enfield. They are the right size. Modern ones are a size 6.75 mm or just size 11 and enfield is .. ( I can not find the size anywhere). But I am pretty sure that is what it is.They called them 4 hats for the way they split.
I had an old rusted piece of junk in my what is it box and saw it looked like a nipple wrench after seeing another one. Did not even see the hole for the rust. Did a restoration on it and it was an 1842 nipple wrench for the ole smooth bore.
You just never know.

 

[AlienLifeForm]

Love the Baggage Tag & the Heart , are you talking about the piece (2 ed row Baggage tab being 1st row)?

If so I'm thinking Brass Jacket from a Rifle Bullet , they sound so good ..... More weight for the scrap brass bucket .

Now the piece on the bottom right looks to be a Percussion Cap But

Ill take underwear buttons to , 3 ringer rocks , as do Small cal O Ball's .
Thx for the pic's.

Looking closer I'm 99% wrong on the far bottom right piece.
Still good stuff.

You're throwing copper in your brass bucket.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Although Alabama11 says he is asking about the obect at far right "in the second row"... he also indicates he thinks it might be a percussion cap... so it cannot be the thumbtack-like object at the far right in what most of us think is the second row.

I'm 100% sure that the green "flared" object he is asking about is the copper (or brass) jacket off of a 20th-Century jacketed lead bullet. The jacket's front edge peeled back on impact, allowing the heavy lead core to escape deeper into whatever object the jacketed bullet hit. I've seen several examples over the years, and even dug one myself. The actual identity of mine was obvious because it was too big to be a percussion cap. The main clue to the actual ID of Alabama11's find is that it is too long-bodied to be a percussion cap.

 

[Davers]

You're throwing copper in your brass bucket.

I always heard , "Brass Jacket". + they 'scrape' the color Brass.
I do believe some are copper

Heck at my recycle-ing place , Zinc , Pewter , Cast Aluminum , Sheet Aluminum all pay the same price 40-45 cent a Lb (at this date, July 3 , 2017).

I can take the small loss , if they are copper. lol