🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Skeleton Key Hole Cover? age?

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I dug this metal detecting at a confederate hospital site in Atlanta GA I dug near this a thick square nail

 

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I dug this metal detecting at a confederate hospital site in Atlanta GA I dug near this a thick square nail

If I had dug thus item I would have thought it was a backing support to a trunk clasp.

 

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If I had dug thus item I would have thought it was a backing support to a trunk clasp.


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Mine is iron I think those in your pic is brass

 

[Bucket Lister]

Mine is iron I think those in your pic is brass

Those are likely plated steel.

 

[pepperj]

Mine is iron I think those in your pic is brass

Yes I see that you're item is iron.

The locking mechanisms in trunks had the brass finish over a iron plate/body.
So your recovery is the integral part of the clasp.
The thin brass is just the finishing cover.

 

[Bucket Lister]

Skeleton Key Hole Cover?​

Technically, that would be called an escutcheon.

Escutcheon (furniture) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

IME, what you have is from something smaller--a trunk, a small chest, or part of a mechanism.

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