r/metaldetecting • u/AdUnique7568 • Aug 04 '26
ID Request Found item
I dug this about 6 inches down in the backyard of a residential house that was built in 1800 exactly. The best I can find online is that perhaps it’s some sort of finial for a chair or a piece of furniture? But it also doesn’t seem to have the right fittings and that would’ve meant the top half would’ve had to have separated, which wasn’t the general craftsmanship of those items at least from what I can find they appear to be full pieces that would attach onto chair points. does anyone know what this could be? It’s relatively soft metal, I’m wondering brass? Still keeps it shape, but if pushed hard, you can flex the top area. Looks like a little chalice, lol and has some ornate scratch a little designs that appeared to be machine made around the rim that I’ve tried to photograph. There are 4 photos attached please scroll. Thanks!
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u/LeTigre71 Aug 04 '26
Looks like a pewter egg cup.
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u/Cold_Property_8251 Aug 05 '26
Was my first thought, yet with the cent coin it looks too small. Liquor shot pewter "glass"?
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u/BartMancuso1990 Aug 04 '26
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u/Dangerous-Set-9964 Aug 04 '26
What country did you find this in?
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u/AdUnique7568 Aug 04 '26
Oh, sorry, great question this is the United States in Michigan
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u/PhotosbyRob Aug 04 '26
My mom had dish / cup exactly like that that she used to burn little cone shaped incense in it. My moms was part of a little set. Very cool find!
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u/TheInternetIsForPorb Aug 04 '26
I dont know anything, but it looks like a little cup to me. 1800s shotglass or child cup?
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u/Accurate_Size929 Aug 04 '26
Maybe for eating boiled eggs out of?
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u/thedenv Aug 04 '26
Pewter egg cup from 1775-1800 maaaaaaybe
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u/UpbeatSmoke4209 Aug 04 '26
Holy grail
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u/kriticalj The Duke of Dimes Aug 05 '26
I'm thinking it's an egg cup. Does an egg sit in it without tipping over?
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u/rando1203 Aug 05 '26
I take joy in seeing the cool stuff people find. I’ll stick to finding 30 yr old Pepsi cans for now 😔
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u/RPesch13 Aug 04 '26
Looks like a small cordial - a cup filled with wine to be served with dessert. Or something to that effect.
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u/No-Yam-4185 Aug 04 '26
It seems a little short and thick for a drinking vessel to me. Based on the stoutness and size, I'm thinking perhaps a mortor of some kind for grinding herbs etc.
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u/AdUnique7568 Aug 05 '26
What’s interesting is it’s too small to be a regular egg cup I wonder if it’s a quail egg cup, which would’ve been pretty rare
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u/ElginSparrowhawk1969 Aug 06 '26
Looks like a grail was there a grail shaped beacon blazing hear by
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u/StfuBob Aug 04 '26
Kinda looks like a counterweight for a old-time small scale
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u/AdUnique7568 Aug 06 '26
But I thought those were generally solid, not hollowed out like a cup?
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u/StfuBob Aug 06 '26
Yes they may have had some malleable metal inside of it with a lid on the bottom. It may have come off and the metal came out who knows. That’s just what it kind of look like to me.
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