✅ SOLVED Silver and filled, but not lead?

[dave_e]

Found this in an old fairground about 10" down.
It may be a rosette but I don't have a lot of experience with them. I've found a handful in the past but this is by far better looking than any of them.

It's very heavy but the backing doesn't appear to be lead. It's much harder.

Any ideas? Quarter is for scale.

 

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[pepperj]

Found this in an old fairground about 10" down.
It may be a rosette but I don't have a lot of experience with them. I've found a handful in the past but this is by far better looking than any of them.

It's very heavy but the backing doesn't appear to be lead. It's much harder.

Any ideas? Quarter is for scale.View attachment 2115176View attachment 2115177

Pewter filled.
A real sweet looking rosette

 

[dave_e]

Thanks for the fast reply!!

 

[Deftone]

Maybe a small clock pendulum as well.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Dave_e said:
> It's very heavy but the backing doesn't appear to be lead. It's much harder.

Your early-1800s horseharness rosette's back is filled with one of the varieties of solder... which is lead alloyed with one or more other "white-metals" such as Tin or Zinc or Antimony, which has the effect of significantly "hardening" the lead.

Only pure lead develops the lovely white patina we relicdiggers adore. The presence of the alloyed tin/zinc/etc. in lead prevents the white oxidation patina from forming. That is why the modern-era machine-made bullets we dig do not have white patina... they are made of a "hardened-lead alloy."

 

[dave_e]

I appreciate the info TCG.