It looks like some sort of cap for a bottle to me. I think the image on the artifact is upside-down on the first picture. If you were to turn the picture 180 degrees you can see that it looks like it is a bird, possibly a hummingbird, drinking from a trumpet flower, though the holes drilled into it have erased the head of the bird.
Rachel Feit
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Hi all,
I’m hoping somebody can help me ID this artifact. It was recovered from a historic farmstead in Wisconsin dating between the 1850s-early 1900s. It is brass and not very flexible. The holes appear to be later punctures and not related to the manufacture of the artifact, maybe related to some sort of reuse.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/958u3u2v7bnm30h/Discfront.JPG?dl=0https://www.dropbox.com/s/yermgbvm33gf8se/Discback.JPG?dl=0
Thank you in advance!
Alex Anthony
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