✅ SOLVED Small button(ish) brass thing with WOOD inside

[parsonwalker]

From known CW camp. Wood inside. Bullet for scale. Any ideas?

 

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[DCMatt]

That's a cool find! Does wood survive 100+ years in the Virginia soil? I suppose there are lots of variables...

Here is a page with some examples but not much specific info. All of them have thread holes, not a slot (presumably for a shank?). Or was yours a two hole that has worn together as one bigger hole?

18th & 19th CenturyInfantry GeneralsNavy Admirals ? George Washington Inaugural Buttons

These are all WAY older than CW era.

 

[Davers]

I don't know what it is but it dose look strangely familiar.
GLWID
Davers

 

[parsonwalker]

Davers, I think somebody nailed it in "Today's finds." Thumbwheel for kerosene lamp. That's why it looked familiar to BOTH of us!! And DC Matt - heck YES! I routinely find enfield bullets with the original wood plug still in the back, and occasionally a bullet in wood . . .