🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Three What Is Its at once - funky geometric knob deals, more unknown brass pieces

[Tinman]

1) I keep finding these funky brass deals with geometric ends?
2) a dime sized piece that has opening on top and connects opening to side drill out, no threads tho? Pistol piece?
3) a unknown Brass piece with a crown hallmark with "C" and "R" on either side of the crown??

 

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[Almy]

G R with crown, George Rex, either II or III so likely 1700s. What it's from I can't recognize. The brass rods with ends look like they were once mounted in a wooden object, like furniture or a boat, and when the object was wrecked, these were bent.

 

[pepperj]

Coat/clothing hangers.
Could also be curtain holders.
Here are some that I have found.

 

[ARC]

I see a Royal Cypher mark... and think i recognize the one from something but must check a few things.
Great finds btw.

 

[Red-Coat]

3) a unknown Brass piece with a crown hallmark with "C" and "R" on either side of the crown??

G R with crown, George Rex, either II or III so likely 1700s

It's not a crown. It's a "Prince of Wales" plumes mark. In Britain, the Prince of Wales is a non-hereditary title usually granted to the next-in-line to the throne... although the plumes themselves don't only have that usage and aren't necessarily for the exclusive use of the Royal family, nor exclusively used in Britain. Many manufacturers also used the mark, often as an indicator that their goods had royal patronage.

If not a maker's initials, the "GR" might be for "GEORGIVS REX" but we have had six "Georges" as king, and so it isn't necessarily 1700s.

Generally it would be unusual for the Prince of Wales plumes to be used in conjunction with the "REX" (ie King) title since the Prince of Wales title is given up at Kingship and then usually bestowed upon the next male heir to the throne.

 

[Tinman]

Coat/clothing hangers.
Could also be curtain holders.
Here are some that I have found.
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Fantastic! Thanks for clearing this up!

 

[BuckleBoy]

It's not a crown. It's a "Prince of Wales" plumes mark. In Britain, the Prince of Wales is a non-hereditary title usually granted to the next-in-line to the throne... although the plumes themselves don't only have that usage and aren't necessarily for the exclusive use of the Royal family, nor exclusively used in Britain. Many manufacturers also used the mark, often as an indicator that their goods had royal patronage.

If not a maker's initials, the "GR" might be for "GEORGIVS REX" but we have had six "Georges" as king, and so it isn't necessarily 1700s.

Generally it would be unusual for the Prince of Wales plumes to be used in conjunction with the "REX" (ie King) title since the Prince of Wales title is given up at Kingship and then usually bestowed upon the next male heir to the throne.

Agreed. And most of the items marked “GR“ which made it over to the United States, were, in fact, marked during the reign of King George III.