✅ SOLVED Unknown brass item

[richeysd76]

Found this last weekend at an old farm. It's about the size of a quater its concave on the back with an iron loop or tack on the back thanks for the help

 

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[Indian Steve]

Maybe a button. How big is it?

 

[Breezie]

It looks like a button with a broken shaft.


Breezie

 

[Joe G from Md]

Maybe attached to leather? Just a guess.

 

[richeysd76]

Here's some better pics

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It can be either a carpetbag/luggage "foot" or a trunk's skid-disc. The iron spike/nail in the center of its back is how it was attached to the carpetbag's wooden base or the re-enforcing bands on the trunk. I don't have a photo showing the underside of a carpetbag (or similar luggage), but here are some photos showing the low-dome brass "skid-discs" on a trunk/chest. Look at the upper left in the closeup photo of the trunk.

 

[richeysd76]

It can be either a carpetbag/luggage "foot" or a trunk's skid-disc. The iron spike/nail in the center of its back is how it was attached to the carpetbag's wooden base or the re-enforcing bands on the trunk. I don't have a photo showing the underside of a carpetbag (or similar luggage), but here are some photos showing the low-dome brass "skid-discs" on a trunk/chest. Look at the upper left in the closeup photo of the trunk.

Thanks everyone, cannonballguy I think that's it.