🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Brass handle thing

[Old Soul]

I’m lost, I found this the other day on a site that is on a 1875 map and gone in 1955. I do not have a map older than 1875 for this area so I don’t know how old the site truly is. Among finding 2 shield nickels, a v nickel and an early wheat. Crotal bell skeleton key buttons etc. it is brass and has some weight to it. It’s broken off on the big side that looks like it had a hole in it. Finger type grips on it with a decorative curled end. I’ve thought a part from a spur? Candle stick holder? A part from a rifle? Or?
Please Help!

 

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[pepperj]

Tankard or a jug handle. Merely guessing on my part.
Hope some will weigh in with an idea.
Cool find

 

[Sandog]

Especially intriguing with what certainly does, as you said, look like finger groves on the outside curl.
Gas pump lever is the best I can do, and that's pretty far out there.