Three items

fixxxer

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I spent the past weekend detecting an old farmstead that dates to the 1870s. The land owner and I have 3 items we could use help identifying. He was thinking the hook was some sort of hay hook but the hook we found is pretty small. The copper thing neither of u have a clue and I was thinking the small cap/casing looking thing was a cane tip possibly but the home owner thinks it's too thin for that. We were able to date finds back to the late 1800s up to modern contamination but all of these were deep. Thanks for any help.
 

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The last one looks like some sort of snap off a harness or similar, where the thin flat spring has corroded away. Something like this, only bigger and heavier:
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Snap hook is right...
Your little tube is the inside of a lipstick tube.
The flat copper piece I'm going to need to think on..
Good finds.. Keep digging.
 
Thanks guys for the help. The snap hook makes perfect sense and I dont know how I missed lipstick piece as we found multiple old lip stick containers in the ground. Thanks again.
 
Shoe horn was my first guess but I've never found or seen one completely flat and usually they are a little bigger I believe. But shape seems right
 
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