Need help with brass objects and tin buttons

[LeFrog]

Hello experts

I need some help with these objects that were made of brass. I found about 40 of them on a wrecksite of a warship from the middle of the 19th century. All measurements on the photos are made in european "cm" not in inch. Since 2 years I try to find out what they are or what they for.

Furthermore I found some buttons, I think they are from trousers but I dont know if its right. On the backside of these tin buttons are the signs *R*, what does that mean?

Regards,
LeFrog

 

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[CRUSADER]

Welcome Lefrog from the UK.

Trouser or shirt buttons. Don't know what the R is

 

[silverswede]

Lets see, on the brass items...If you drilled a hole through a wall paneling the size of the threaded part, inserted the piece through the hole up to the middle and put a washer and nut on the other side and snugged it up and if the hole in the piece runs all the way through you'd have a brass thingy that would let you run a wire through the panel and look kinda cool. Sorry the best I could do. Nice finds Le Frog.

 

[Angelo]

Since you found 40 pieces unattached I figure that they would be spare parts.

Picture this:

From the inside of a toilet bowl insert threaded end through tank after placing a rubber gasket. Thread from underneath with nut and attach water line. Other end would exhaust the water for fill. If not toilet, I feel that it is water related.

Tony

 

[relic lover]

He said from an 1800's war ship, not the lawn of a plumbing supply shop!! ...how about screwed into a cannon as a percussion cap nipple? The intact ones sure look tapered to take a cap.

 

[relic lover]

LeFrog must be wreck diving this weekend

 

[LeFrog]

Hello Folks.

Sorry for the late answer. I found some more of these brass parts that looks like percussion cap nipples. I know that these nipples normally were made of iron not of brass. So that must be the wrong way.

I bought the U.S. book "Civil War Artefacts" as a little resource for my findings. We have some battlefields here in my region, too. They are similar to the U.S. Civil War battlefields. We have the same stuff, like the Bormann fuze or some bullets.

But now, back to the topic. What astonishes me, is the large number of these objects. It is terrible for me that I dont know what the for or what they are!

Are they parts of clothing, like pieces of buttons?

Or are they parts of ammunition?

Or are the parts of the ship?

All objects I found are from the same type and they look the same. There is no wood or iron on or beside them. They are lying as single pieces and alone on in the seabed in a square field of 100x100 feet. sometimes I found 2 pieces in the same dug hole.

Regards,
LeFrog