Sword hanger???

[VAdigger1988]

 

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[VAdigger1988]

Can anyone ID

 

[ironhorse]

Being made of iron I would say it's a snap hook

 

[VAdigger1988]

Snap hook sword hanger? I found near colonial home site in central va?

 

[ARC]

Ironhorse is correct on the ID... Snap hook.

 

[jewelerguy]

Snap hook sword hanger? I found near colonial home site in central va?

snap hooks were first patented in 1907. keep on diggin'

 

[prolab69]

More than likely horse or rifle related, that design is pretty general.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Jewelerguy, you've contributed quite a few amazing identifications, so I sincerely respect your knowledge. Please take the following as well-intended. One particular version of snap hook may have been first patented in 1907... but the object in the photo below is identified as a "US cavalry link strap for US model-1859 bit." (Identified by longtime US Militaria dealer Hayes Otoupalik.) Note the large iron snap hook. So I'm asking, can anybody here solidly confirm or contradict that identification?

 

[parsonwalker]

Jewelerguy, you've contributed quite a few amazing identifications, so I sincerely respect your knowledge. Please take the following as well-intended. One particular version of snap hook may have been first patented in 1907... but the object in the photo below is identified as a "US cavalry link strap for US model-1859 bit." (Identified by longtime US Militaria dealer Hayes Otoupalik.) Note the large iron snap hook. So I'm asking, can anybody here solidly confirm or contradict that identification?

Wow - I had no idea there was a spring retention iron snap hook that far back!! I retract my skepticism posted for this item in today's finds!

 

[callicles]

Jewelerguy, you've contributed quite a few amazing identifications, so I sincerely respect your knowledge. Please take the following as well-intended. One particular version of snap hook may have been first patented in 1907... but the object in the photo below is identified as a "US cavalry link strap for US model-1859 bit." (Identified by longtime US Militaria dealer Hayes Otoupalik.) Note the large iron snap hook. So I'm asking, can anybody here solidly confirm or contradict that identification?

This is very interesting. I'm assuming a "bit" relates to equine accoutrements? I'm just wondering whether or not there exists photographs from, say the ACW, that shows this bit? I'm just saying that we all need to pay attention to old photographs. I'm bad about looking at the soldier, or other broad things. Maybe someone here might see a picture where this item is obvious in minutia, but painfully invisible in the big picture. I for one will start looking at pictures of ACW soldiers and their horses with an eye to discovering this item!!

 

[Alex Burke]

I was thinking that patent dates may not always be the best way to date inventions but seems common? I'm not an expert just a layman. I was thinking that it was so hard to travel before planes, trains and autos. Maybe inventions would often be kept locally for years or decades before being taken to a populated area where the item became discovered by a larger crowd, patented/mass produced.