anybody recognize this?

[Older The Better]

Found near an old cabin that was burnt down in the 60's I'm guessing built in the early 1900's, I cleaned it a long time ago when I was just learning how to clean things and I rounded it out and made the letters hard to read, I can see PAT (ented) is my guess on one side. Oct 29 (1901) on the other. I tried looking up patents on that date but didn't get far. its a few inches long maybe 1/4 inch thick. other than that it looks like it attached to something but if there was a back side why would you put lettering where nobody would ever see it. anybody have any ideas?

 

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[Icewing]

If it were a piece that had spanned a gab, like a cross member on a car for example, then it could have been visible on both sides. What it originally was on, I haven't the slightest.

 

[Oddjob]

Yeah, its mine, I lost it back in the 60s during a cabin fire.

 

[Older The Better]

there is the back quarter of a car in the wash below the hill that the cabin is on. but it looks like 30's or 40's so I don't see where a 1901 pat would come in... I'm not even sure if 1901 isn't just a touch early for cars in general

 

[Icewing]

No no no, I'm not saying it's a car part, the cross member was just an example, I know your piece is much smalle.

 

[zerry]

so far all I can find are tools I was thinking it had to come off something like a tractor or farm implement, but here is a list of tools on that day
Patents Granted on 1901-10-29

Patents 1 - 15 of 15
First set of recordsLast set of records

Number Date Patentee Title Type
685,256 Oct. 29, 1901 T.F. Carns Process of Producing Wrought-Metal Wrench-Jaws wrench jaw components
685,273 Oct. 29, 1901 J.W. Grubbs Wrench quick adjust wrenches
685,282 Oct. 29, 1901 J.P. Johnson Cylinder Wrench cylinder tooth wrenches
685,288 Oct. 29, 1901 J.C. Miller Indicator for Lathes measurement gauges
685,328 Oct. 29, 1901 H.P. Gale Rubbing and polishing machine sanding machines
685,347 Oct. 29, 1901 G. Richards Metal Planing and Shaping Machine metal shapers
685,348 Oct. 29, 1901 G. Richards Metal Planing Machine metal shapers
685,411 Oct. 29, 1901 A.F. Schade Multi-position Router Cutter Adjuster router planes
685,634 Oct. 29, 1901 F. Olson, J.C. Opland Combined Slide Gage and Try Square squares
685,641 Oct. 29, 1901 J. Reid Apparatus for Drilling and Operating Oil Wells oilfield machinery
685,655 Oct. 29, 1901 W.S. Tubbs Pipe Wrench pipe tongs
685,656 Oct. 29, 1901 F.T. Verharen Wrench pipe and nut combination wrenches
685,677 Oct. 29, 1901 Z.T. Furbish Ball-Chuck drill chucks
685,678 Oct. 29, 1901 Z.T. Furbish Magazine spring drill hand drills
685,690 Oct. 29, 1901 W.P. Moulton Butt Gage butt gauges