Still need an ID on this....

[Eagledigs]

Found this in the Union siege lines in Vicksburg among different Civil War bullets and other relics of the war. It is brass and has a plain face. There is a small "clip" on the rim on the back and there appears to have been another one on the rim directly across from it, but it broke off. I have see one of these in a Civil War relic display but there was no ID on it. Thanks for looking!

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Late-1800s to modernday civilian leather horsegear ornament. The telltale clue is the fold-over tabs, for attachment through a thick piece of leather.

Here's a photo showing the fold-over attachment tabs on an early-1900s US horsegear rosette.

 

[Eagledigs]

Thanks CannonballGuy..Was holding out hope it was Civil War..Oh well...Thanks again..

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

If it's any consolation... I have been similarly frustrated by the fact that millions of Civilians kept riding their horses across civil war battlesites, losing bits of their horsegear, for 60 to 70 years after the war ended.

Even worse, the US Army kept on camping and staging manuevers and combat-practice on the old civil war battlesites & campsites. You'd be amazed at how much Spanish-American war, World War One, and World War 2 military gear gets dug in the fields and woods here around Richmond. I myself have dug Indian Wars era .45/70 Government Rifle bullets on the Fredericksburg VA battlefield, and World War One rosettes and World War 2 insignia at the Richmond civil war siege-entrenchments.