✅ SOLVED Small, metal floral (rose) item

[Hoosier Digger]

While hunting an 1875 home site in central Indiana, I came upon this small metal item. It is just a little less than an inch and a half long and appears to be shaped into a rose. The back is flat and smooth, with no holes or writing. The tip is bent outwards at a 90 degree angle. I have no clue what its purpose had been. Was it a piece of jewelry or did it have a more utilitarian use?

 

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[kingskid1611]

Whats the back look like? It may be something to hang something on its ornate that's for sure.

 

[Hoosier Digger]

Sorry I didn't photograph the back, but it is flat, smooth metal with no holes, notches or indentations. I first thought it mounted to something and was a small hook from which to hang something, but it has no way short of glue to mount on something.

 

[nhbenz]

It really does look like a picture hook that originally would have had a pin sticking out of the back at a downward angle, for use on plaster/drywall. I think it broke off cleanly enough to make it hard to tell that it was there.

 

[nhbenz]

This search shows some nearly identical: antique brass wall hook push pin hanger - Google Search

 

[Hoosier Digger]

You are absolutely correct! There is an identical match. Something like that was my first thought, but when I saw the smooth back, I thought I had to be wrong. Thank you so much!