100 year old brass curtain rods?

[MackDigger]

I found these in the same attic that I've pulled TONS of stuff from between the late 18 and early 19 hundreds. Being capped around the 30's. My best guess is curtain rods but any other ideas? Two of them extend. Also do these hold any value.

 

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[Subterranean]

They look like bore cleaning rods for rifles. Sub

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Is the one with the loop threaded on the other end? It could be a cleaning rod.....

The other two look like curtain rods for door curtains to me, I'm thinking lace curtains for an old front door.... They could also be rods to hold a carpet runner in place on stairs....

The wood one is for a rolling shade, it will have a spring inside. My grandparents had those on practically every window in the house.

 

[MackDigger]

What do u mean by threaded? It looks like this on the other end

 

[BosnMate]

The hole is for the cleaning patch to be threaded through. I have a cleaning rod out in the shop right now, that I've had for all my 80 years. Some have threads on the end to screw on cleaning jags, but mine has an oblong hole for the patch, no threads.

 

[MackDigger]

So it's a riffle cleaning rod? That's awesome!

 

[MackDigger]

That thought never even crossed my mind! You think it dates to the period that the other finds have? Turn of the century to about 1930's?

 

[NOLA_Ken]

With the hole being that small I don't think it's a cleaning rod.... I can't imagine how you'd get a patch through it. Looking again I had the idea it might be part of the mechanism to open and close an old transom window, the hole could be where a pin went through and attached it to the rest of the lever system

 

[MackDigger]

Well now I'm stumped again lol. Looking at google images there are some riffle rods that look exactly like myn.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

It does look like one for sure, is the end hollow with threads inside? I just can't see anyway to put a cleaning patch through that little hole.... Typically a cleaning rod will have a rectangular hole. If it is hollow and threaded it probably is a cleaning rod, and originally had interchangeable tips...


I guess it could be a push through only type rod, I have one for a .22 somewhere that just shoves the patch through and lets it fall instead of pulling it back, I've only used it a couple times to clean really fouled antique barrels and I wasn't really thinking about that one til now