Thread: Opinions???

So do you think this can be restored?


Just kidding. A friend who's an archeologist found this on a dig near where a fort was built in 1837.
So it looks to me like a stubtail with a barber notch. I guessed it was probably made in the decades before, after and including 1840 (he told me about the fort after I made that guess.) His question was what the scales had been made from. My comment was: "Scales could have been anything from horn to celluloid (first made in 1856) to bone but not Bakelite which was first made in 1907. Cool though. Oh, or wood could have been used also but less likely." I told him I'd post and get some opinions. So, what do you think.
Oh yeah. You can even see the pivot pin.