✅ SOLVED Old brass dragon serpent plate...Need help with ID.

[mk4125]

. I actually dug this up a few weeks back and JUST realized that there is a dragon (serpent) on it. I found it along the shore if Lake Michigan near a know Indian trade location. Any ideas?

 

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[Subterranean]

Part of a furniture piece maybe, a drawer pull? Sub

 

[Iron Patch]

A little different, but seems too close not to be a sideplate... often associated with the fur trade.

 

[Iron Patch]

I see there is variations, so that adds to my confidence that's what you have. Might be able to match it.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

is it broken on one end?

 

[mk4125]

is it broken on one end?

** Correct - it is broken on one end. The outside edges are fairly sharp so would make sense that it is a plate of some sort (my first through was drawer pull actually).

 

[ARC]

Agreed... sideplate.

 

[BosnMate]

Agree, side plate off an Indian Trade Musket.

 

[mk4125]

I am thinking the same thing...side plate to a trade musket. I will keep my eye out for a possible match to the design (and the other half that it surely buried out there nearby).