✅ SOLVED Pair of copper pins, small 3 ring, something made of nickel?

[JRMan]

Framingham MA, hunting in my favorite woods again. Found these interesting but unknown items.

Found these 2 that look like copper near each other:


Found this lead bullet wrapped in wood. It looked like a seed that had a bullet inside it. Any idea how old it may be?


Very flat piece of what looks like nickel that was coated a gold color. My guess it is once was a cylinder shaped, maybe a cap to something?:


Thank you.

 

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[HutSiteDigger]

The first photo looks like a pair of very old switches maybe for electrical or a switch too pop something open/etc on a piece of machinery it looks like it attached too something else on the bottom base of it maybe early 20th century or very late 1800ish. The second is a 19th century bullet looks like it is a 54 cal. Merrill carbine but i may be off on that... Cant tell what the third went on but looks like it could have been a cup.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

The flattened one might be the "dose cup" that came with a bottle of "medicinal whiskey"

 

[boris]

Can you see letters SI on the upper left of item # 3? Here in Mass[SE] I find many items I think are Sommer Islands made[Bermuda] # 1 cufflinks? HH BorisLook for hogge/ship logo on any "nuggets" nearby

 

[Panache]

could the gold be a cane tip?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I could tell you what item number one is but I need to get out my 1909 Sears Roebuck and take a photo.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Not an exact match but they are collar buttons... not electrical...
Lever Pointer type ... gold plated 7 cents each in 1909....36 cents per dozen

If those gentleman button studs could talk we would know what happened in the woods that day

could they have been used as cufflinks like Boris suggested?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your bullet appears to have a "reeded" body-groove (also called a reeded cannelure). In this cae, the word "reeded" means having multiple short paralled ridges inside the groove. See photo below for an example. Reeded body-grooves first appeared on American bullets in approximately 1880 -- so that's as early as your bullet can be from. I should mention, bullets are still being made with "reeded" body-grooves today.

Your excellent photo showing the bullet's base right up against the markings on a ruler indicates it is approxaimately 9/16th-inch in diameter (about .56 or .57-inch). Putting that diameter together with its body-style and having two grooves (at least one of which shows reeding) above a thinner crimping-groove (for attaching the bullet into a metallic cartridge), my "best guess" is that it is a latter-1800s bullet for the .56-56 Spencer Rifle.

 

[JRMan]

As all ways you guys really know your stuff. Thanks for all the great inputs and help in solving these little riddles. JRMan