✅ SOLVED Period Brass attachment devise in shape of a bottle?

[BigBobBow]

Dug this in a colonial home site along with about 8 large cents, reales, and Civil War items including about 30-40 bullets. May be part of a musket? Got me.. thanks for looking

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Upgraded Night Vision Monocular Digital Infrared Monocular Telescope for 100% Darkness with 8X Zoom - Grab it through Amazon!

[ironhorse]

That totally looks like brass from a musket, either an escutcheon or from a trigger guard

 

[nhbenz]

Yeah, I was just working on the trigger guard piece possibility... Hunting Guns in Colonial America

 

[Iron Patch]

It's different because usually being that size it's a broken piece of a trigger guard, but that looks to be made that way.

 

[CRUSADER]

agreed, its some sort of gun furniture

 

[BigBobBow]

Thanks for the reply's & incite! The piece does seem to whole as it was made. The holes looked like adjustments where made somewhere down the road.

 

[BosnMate]

I agree, I think it's early firearms related, but if so, in a very narrow manner, perhaps a decoration on an Indian Trade Musket. The way it's made, a pin must pass through the stock to hold it in place. That means it can't be placed along the bottom of the fore stock, because it would plug up the ram rod hole. That means the only place that I can figure is perhaps on the wrist, and those are usually nailed on. Here are some photos to show what I mean.

This is a pistol showing a thumb piece, note that it's nailed on.

These are ram rod pipes and an entry thimble. The ramrod pipes fit in the groove from the muzzle down to the entry thimble, where the ramrod enters the wood.
This is the inlet for the ramrod entry thimble. Note the slot for the flange.
The hole is drilled through the wood and the thimble. Note where the ramrod enters the wood. When the thimble is in place, the pin goes between the barrel and the ramrod.
This is a picture of a ramrod pipe being drilled, again the pin is between the barrel and the bottom of the groove for the ramrod.
The trigger guard is also pinned to the stock. The ramrod hole ends at that front flange on the trigger guard. So there is no place between the muzzle and the rear end of the lock for your find to be pinned to the gun, that just leaves the wrist, so to me, and I'm making an educated guess, a swag, it's off an Indian Trade musket as a wrist decoration, and I say that only able to back it up by saying it just looks like it would be on a trade gun. If it isn't the front part of a trigger guard, then in my experience I've never seen anything like it on a long rifle. Perhaps a musket or fowler, probably a trade musket.

 

[BigBobBow]

The Indian trade thoughts are very interesting.. As some of my first trade items have come from this same site, and the fact the road bed was an old Indian path later used as a road for early Americans. I would say this thing is solved! Gun furniture! Thanks everyone! Especially Bos for the great pictures.

 

[Iron Patch]

Saying this is solved is sort of like saying a coin is a Connecticut copper, but giving up before someone nails the variety. That is unless you believe this is a broken piece of a trigger guard that was later altered. If you believe it was made that way, then I personally would not be calling it solved. Now is there ever going to be a clear answer, maybe not, but sure a whole lot less chance because once the thread is marked it will disappear fast.

 

[BigBobBow]

Ok. maybe I jumped the Gun on the solved button. More information would of been great, guess the gun furniture idea seamed right to me. The design seams odd.. but looks plausible to me. My bad Iron. Live and learn I recon. thanks for getting me straight. Keep posting!