✅ SOLVED Round Ball,Button and Brass Plate?

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Got a couple things I'm not sure of,you guys on here are pretty good at identifying things.

First I have what I think might be a fired round ball? I have no scales to weigh it,put a penny next to it for size comparison.

Next I have what looks like a button.It looks like copper,might be brass.Afraid to to do much with it,it's not very thick.

This last one could be anything.I thought maybe somebody might recognize the shape of it from a specific thing.This one looks more like brass.

Thanks!!

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

When relic-hunting on civil war battlefields, I've dug many fired revolver balls which show a flattened area encircling the ball's body. It is caused by the fact that a revolver ball was manufactured slightly larger than the revolver's bore, and firing forced the ball through the bore, creating the flattened area encircling the ball.

Based on doing a size comparison with the penny in the photo, your ball appears to be a .44-caliber revolver ball.

The thick white-ish lead Oxide patina on your lead ball indicates it has been in the ground for a very long time... so, it could be from the civil war era. I should mention, ball firing revolvers were bought by a great many civilians, not just the Army. The civilians used them before, during, and after the civil war. That would explain why your fired .44 revolver ball could be dug at a spot where there was no civil war battle.

Your button appears to be a thin stamped-brass 1-piece button from sometime in the 1900s, made for use on civilian clothing.

The brass plate has a single hole at the edge of at its top. That indicates it is a tag. For example, an ID-plate would have had more than one hole, so it could be screwed (or riveted, or nailed) onto something.

 

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All three pieces were found right in the thick of things as far as the civil war goes,not saying they are from the war.

Thanks !!