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Antique Questions Forum / Re: What is this? I'm stumped!

« on: February 17, 2012, 12:39:00 am »

Welcome to the forum! It is a sword guard. Others are seen here:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0oGdd6l8T1PdScA1nVXNyoA?p=sword%20guard&fr=yfp-t-701&fr2=piv-web

Thanks!  I think I'm seeing a hut type relief in the bottom right corner; with gold fish underneath, and trees around.  Perhaps it's a relic from previous owner's trips to Fiji, where he brought back an antique bow and arrow set.  More to come in the next few weeks. 

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Antique Questions Forum / What is this? I'm stumped!

« on: February 16, 2012, 11:34:47 pm »

I am doing a clean out on an old New England home.  The contents span 175 yrs. so far.  One house member did a lot of international travel in the early 1900s, so I have a lot to go through.  But this one stumped me.

It's a very old round iron disk about 2.25" across.  There are two odd shaped holes in the center (one oblong, the other arrow-tip shaped).  On the front are a few raised relief branches tipped in gold paint, and what appear to be birds in flight, also tipped in gold paint.  The back has a few tips of gold paint, and some sort of round marks, which look almost like soldering marks.  Could this be a buckle?  Japanese?