Shown is what I believe is a buckle from horses’ tack. The prong is iron, and rusted, but the main frame is undoubtedly brass (non-magnetic and shows as such under a scratch).

The dog randomly dug this up in the backyard, in an area we just cleared of brush. I could ask my sister if she recalls losing this: we had over 30 horses at one time, but don’t think she’d recall as that was 50 years ago. Happily there were no bones present, so it wasn’t a burial site.
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#tack
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Also found, didn’t know it was lost…

Mom found this on the way to getting her St Patrick's Day door decoration out. She figures it was something done for my home ec class which puts it into the - uh - old category. The cardboard used fo[…]
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#booklet #HomeEc #JuniorHigh #stash #thingsfound