Mystery brass tag

[ModernMiner]

I dug this brass tag up in the farm woods today, and it looks pretty old too. It is just over 1" square, and has holes in each corner as you can see.
There is a 4-digit number stamped into it that is driving my nuts.
It looks like possibly 1841 or 1811, but I am not sure. I have attached numerous pictures at different angles of light, and even upside-down.
*What do you think it says?
*Any idea what this tag could have been used for?
This farm property was originally part of the 640 acre plantation property I detect at.
Thanks,
MM

 

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[ModernMiner]

Drum roll Please ....

It is and will remain a .... Mystery brass tag .... 8)

~ Nick ~

Colonial rat token?

 

[Woodland Detectors]

lol @ nick! I agree Doug It's one of those forever--------> what iz itz

 

[RELICDUDE07]

I found some of these too.Im looking into them MM

 

[creskol]

My guess is that it is a wagon maker's plate.

I have seen square cast brass plates before, but I have no idea what this one says. Nice find regardless.

 

[RELICDUDE07]

 

[deepskyal]

Maybe an ID tag from a piece of machinery. I worked for a food processer some years back and each piece of equipment we used had a unique numbered tag for inventory purposes and catalogued in case parts were needed. I'm talking very large machinery here.....8,000 lb. blenders, frozen meat grinders that would spit out a cow if we could...

The tags were not in obvious places and when the company closed down on us......someone... ...snapped them all off and took em home for souvineers....they replaced them right away because they were disassembling the machenery to ship south...and someone broke them off too....crazy guy...

Some tags only had numbers and others also had the company name stamped on the perimeter. I'll have to dig em out for a look...errr, I mean find that guy that took em all...

Al

 

[Tricia]

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