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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 1450200, member: 6444&quot;]Strangely, I just posted a pic of one of these plates (that has never been buried) in another recent thread to show what they look like: <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/old-furniture-brasses.45398/#post-1443030" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/old-furniture-brasses.45398/#post-1443030">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/old-furniture-brasses.45398/#post-1443030</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The one I show is the backplate only. But you have two of the threaded posts as well. The earlier ones were always made in separate pieces like this. You are likely to have early ones (though they continued to be made in this style even today if you are willing to pay for them):</p><p><img src="http://robinsonsantiques.com/early-pulls/early-pull-17b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>You apparently have two different styles - the larger piece is one style, and the two smaller pieces are broken off of a different style backplate. It was common to replace furniture hardware either to upgrade to the latest style, or to change out all them when one or two of the old ones broke. Unlike today, the removed bits were often put aside, for &quot;later&quot;. The fact that there are two different styles, along with the mixture of other bits you found, makes me think these may have been removed from pieces of furniture and put aside, possibly in a shed or barn. So they may predate the structure that used to be there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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