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I'm still kind of stuck on the plaque. It is one of the things you can be relatively sure of.
Again, the plaque looks crude compared with the box and the contents. The spacing in the...

Early 19th century 'peg and worm' corkscrew:
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It appears that the dedication plaque on the outside of the wooden case was not installed where the case was assembled.
This looks like a very high tone set to be given to a Sergeant. But I guess...

Ok, not etched in stone but here is something...
from Wikipedia
The 10th Cavalry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army. Formed as a segregated African-American unit, the 10th Cavalry was one...

I think I would do an ancestry/historical search to find out as much as possible about the Sgt. Thomas Wilson and the Tenth in the engraved plaque.

This kind of miraculous find will keep some of us going with the hope that as we paw through junk...there might, just might, be a small treasure.
Thanks for the pics!

And, this looks like a...