✅ SOLVED ***PLEASE Help us identify this brass piece!!!***

[Marie0424]

Hi there!!!

Just discovered this piece from an area that used to be a fort from the 1700's occupied by the Danish. Any ideas on what it could be? MUCH APPRECIATED!!! (this was after it was cleaned obviously)

THANKS!!!

 

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[Red James Cash]

looks kind of like something that a door knocker would hit.

 

[Marie0424]

Hi Red James Cash!

It really does doesn't it!!! Because those sides look like that was where it was drilled into the door!!! Maybe thats it!! Would still love to hear more ideas!

 

[Erik in NJ]

I think Red James Cash has it right--it appears to be a door knocker striker plate. Here's a modern reproduction I found online without the mounting wings that yours has. Yours appears to be Victorian and probably has nothing to do with the 18th C or the Danish fort. Country and general area it was found in might be of some help in providing a better ID.

 

[basque-man]

Whatever it is, sure looks good and old.

 

[SweetLook]

The lid to a tankard?

 

[CRUSADER]

Its an 19th C horse brass bridal mount

 

[mcl]

The lid to a tankard?

A lid that closes with a wrench and two bolts?

 

[Erik in NJ]

Its an 19th C horse brass bridal mount

I'm sure you are right as it does resemble a rosette, but most rosettes I have seen have a square loop on the back for a strap to pass thru. Do you mean a bridal boss? I'm not exactly sure where or what a bridal boss did. I know the rosettes were typically on the sides of the horses heads.

 

[Marie0424]

I love the idea of it being from a horse's bridal!!! LOVE that idea!!!!! Any photos?

 

[Erik in NJ]

It appears Crusader is correct!

Here's a very similar item to yours:

Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland

 

[Marie0424]

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I just love this website!!!
This is so much fun! Thanks for the help everyone! Y'all are AWESOME!!!

 

[CRUSADER]

It appears Crusader is correct!

Here's a very similar item to yours:

Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland

I would normally say Horse Boss, but its not a term I see Tnet using much, so I generalised.

 

[Peter Iredale]

Looks like door decor

 

[against the wind]

Nice research,,, sure didn't take long to I.D. that Horse como se lllama