3 Weird Ones

[umrgolf]

Not sure what the lead hand holding the cup is all about the iron piece i have no clue and the knife says "Baltimore Club Rye"

 

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[mastereagle22]

And it was always a family affair. Beginning in 1860, Hunter Baltimore Rye was made by William Lanahan and Son. In 1868, the Frank L. Wight Distilling Co. began production of Sherbrook, using a recipe perfected by ancestor John J. Wight. From 1872 until 1919, Thomas G. Carroll and Son were kept busy turning out Baltimore Club Rye, Carroll’s Carrollton and Return Rye. Perhaps the most storied of the Maryland ryes was Melrose, created by Henry “Harry” Paul Goldsborough in 1885. Not simply one rye, it was a blend of no fewer than five whiskeys, and took up to six months in its

In 1931, Henry Walters, the son of world-class art and whiskey collector William T. Walters, passed away, and an almost insignificant portion of the very large estate he left to his wife Sarah was his (and his father's) collection of Maryland Rye whiskey. Accumulated prior to prohibition, the many cases of full bottles had lain in the cellar of their home for decades, and they continued to do so. Mrs. Walters did not drink and was most likely unaware of the existence of these increasingly rare objects. She died in 1943, and they turned up as part of her estate sale, held in November of 1943 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Park Avenue in New York City. In his definitive study on Maryland Rye whiskey for the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore Sun editorialist and author James H. Bready notes that, ".. .of sixty-three lots catalogued and priced by Peter Greig of New York, the final dozen were 982 quarts and fifths of “Maryland Rye Whiskies”—specifically, Baltimore Club, Melvale (case-dated 1887, 1888, 1890, 1891), Orient (label-dated 1890, 1892) and Sherwood (stamped 1911).. .A small 1943 sticker was affixed to the back of each bottle. A few such certified Walters Sale relics, emptied, still turn up in the antiques market".

 

[IronSpike]

Could the hand/cup be from a pewter candle snuffer?

 

[umrgolf]

I'd say bingo on the first two replies.. thanks to both of you.. IronSpike, your id seems correct but it's not a piece, its whole, but does very much seem like the purpose of the hand & cup

 

[mastereagle22]

Iron piece appears to be an arrow head with the turquois type stone in it?