Here are a few trinkets I made up. I figured if the artillery guys had crossed cannon ornaments, guys in Gatling Detachments ought to have crossed Gatlings pins.
Stamped sheet brass one is more historically accurate. Pin on card is solid cast copper.
Cast iron plates are from a carriage restoration we did.
A detail regarding Gatling builder's plates (spotting copies). There are quite a few brass builder's plates out on the market and most of them are fakes. Quick way to tell is the raised blob just in front of the "9" in one of the patent dates. That's from a little bit of sand dislodged by a "vent pick', a long slender rod the mold makers used to shove into the sand to vent gases as the molten metal was being poured in. When the original plate was copied to make duplicates, whoever made the pattern copied the blob left in the sand too. You gotta wonder how even an experienced mold maker could hit that exact same spot with his vent pick time after time after time.
Not every builders plate back then was made of brass and kept polished. Cast iron was another material of choice.
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