✅ SOLVED Another puzzle (or three)

[IggyKatz]

I came across these items in yet another estate sale. Some items I've been able to identify (spurs, antique wooden tap, mine testers) but these 3 have evaded identification and I need more help! Thanks again... This first item is metal, 15" long and 4" across the widest point, the cradle (I guess). I thought smelter but can't find any confirmation.


These next two items, well, I'm not even going to pretend I have the first clue as to what they are. The first one, rusty, is 8" long and the second is 10 1/2" long and the hook comes out 2 1/2"


Thanks again!

 

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[jewelerguy]

the bottom two items are lightening rod grounding ends I believe, but I could be wrong

 

[Gambrinus]

https://www.ebay.com/i/362035921680?chn=psminers candlestick holder

 

[Tony in SC]

The top item looks like a crude lamp.

 

[IggyKatz]

Thanks! Candlestick holder would never have occurred to me. And it would make sense if the other item was a crude lamp...

This group of people is great!

 

[bradyboy]

The first item, pot
Looks like a ships candle / light, so to speak
rotates with the waves
IMO

 

[BosnMate]

Are you located in a mining area? The candle holders resemble the ones I've seen in the California gold country, that the old time miners used. I suppose they could be stuck in the wall of a log cabin, but I think they are intended to be stuck in the wall of a mine shaft.

 

[jewelerguy]

https://www.ebay.com/i/362035921680?chn=psminers candlestick holder

 

[BIGSCOTT]

also if in mining country top one could be a crude retort
looks like it may have been made from a horse bit.

 

[mojjax]

The first looks like a crude parade torch gimbal . My Grandfather had one and he used it to burn caterpillar nests in trees .

https://www.google.com/search?q=gim...ved=0ahUKEwjfvfGUo6_YAhWBQyYKHYQjCR0Q_AUICygC

 

[Bruce R]

The spring looking thing is a harrow tooth, the last one appears to be a beam from a homemade tobacco scale.