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This one has me puzzled....

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I have found dozens of these from the same circa 1900 area.It is slightly larger than a dime in diameter and about twice as thick.It has no markings and is made of lead.Any ideas?
 
...about three pounds. <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=";)">
Sorry, an old joke <img src="/metal/html/shrug.gif" border=0 width=37 height=15 alt=":shrug">
I believe you have a hem weight, sewn into dresses to make them hang correctly. I have also found cloak weights, much larger, up to an inch or so in diameter. All made of lead and looking like a button.
 
Guess I can use them for fishin' sinkers since I don't need em for my dresses....LOL.Thanks for the info Steve...another "junk jar" mystery solved!
 
I have seen these types of buttons on Canadian Military pants WW1 to the 1950s. I would suggest if we used them then so did the fellows in the Good Old USofA. They were also used on coveralls.
Dean Owen
Whitby Ontario
 
But they seem kinda soft for that use.(I can bend them double with my fingers)Thanks for your reply.
 
Many button from the 1840s to early 1900s were made of lead. Also many were made of a thin layer of tin that was backed by wood or a form of cardboard.
Dean Owen
Whitby Ontario
 
...Gosh Frank, that sounds like a Hardy Boy adventure! <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
Thanks for posting Dan! <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=";)">
 
some are square, some are big and some are small. I believe they were used as weights for the bottom corners of curtains or skirts, so they hung properly.
 
were used in dress making in the old days. I was told by someone, I have no idea who, that they were sewn in the dress hem, as a weight, to make them hang straight.
It might be wrong but that is what I always thought they were.
 
...as you can see from the responses it seems most folks in the detecting community have come to regard these, perhaps wrongly, as hem weights... It would be pretty neat if you could disspell this popular notion!
As Dan from Missouri says, show me. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
Sorry, bad algebra joke from an Ex New York Jets lineback that taught us one winter. Probably got hit too many times or spent to much time out on the town in the big apple with Joe.
 
<img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
As a kid i have personaly cut them out of curtains, both round and square. Tim
 
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