Old home site finds today...

[fwcrawford]

My buddy and I searched around an old home site for about 4 hours and managed a few more saves.
He had the pick of the finds today finding a New York button, a Virginia button, and a nice sturrup ( at least after some electrolosys it will be ).
I don't know anything about sturrups,so if someone could tell me if this may be military style or not it would help.
Most of the ones I find are not shaped like this.
Also needed is some help IDing the object on the far right with the square hole in it.. don't have a clue on this either.. it is made of brass.
I managed to find the flower button with a backmark "B. & BURNHAM EXTRA".
Still has much of the gold gilding on it too!
Thanks for looking,
Felix

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

I would like to see a photo of the bottom portion of the stirrup also. It resembles some confederate cavalry types I've seen in the past. ??? Great finds all around. cch

 

[cbll1011]

Great finds-the square thing looks like it may be some type of handle.

 

[fwcrawford]

n/t

 

[umrgolf]

Nice finds, Benedict and Burnham buttons almost always have the majority of the gilt remaining.. They must have been heavily gilted. They were commonly worn by confederates as well.

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

That appears to be a Conf Cavalry Stirrup to me !!! Nice. CCH

 

[redneckjimmy1980]

cool finds man,been dyein to dig a old stirrup,or anything from the confederates for that matter the south will rise again. only reason we lost is because we sold our bullets for coffee,and smokes

 

[Larry (IL)]

That stirrup turned out really nice.......and the handle is for a valve stem. I have seen them on gas lines for the old gas lights, (before electricity) although they could be used for many things.

 

[tumbleinn]

nice relics