✅ SOLVED Brass relic. Nothing rare or valuable, but I need to know what it is!

[FreeBirdTim]

This one's been bugging me for days, so I need your help! It's brass and 2 inches long. The ID is just about 3/4 of an inch. I was thinking maybe the tip of a cane, but why the opening on the side? Any guesses would be appreciated!

 

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[Back-of-the-boat]

Probably not this but on my bike when I was a kid in the handlebars was a wedge type piece like that although it had a spot that a bolt would go through it.But something to that effect, that would wedge in another item in a pipe, just a thought maybe it will stir someones memory.

 

[Tony in SC]

Looks like a tip off a buggy tongue. Tony

 

[vhs07]

Looks like a tip to a wooden rod that got drug on the road and ground it down.
I believe another one was posted a while back.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It is definitely a brass tip from a horsedrawn buggy's harness shaft. Allowing the shaft to drag on the ground is what eventually wears a hole through the brass tip at that angle. These objects have been discussed several times here in the What Is It? forum. In one of those discussions, our fellow T-Net ID-helper MudHut posted the photo below, showing some with a worn-through hole... and also showing that buggy harness shaft tips are still being made and sold today, for people who build authentic antique buggies.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Solved! Thanks for the help, guys.