CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THIS IS?

[Alwayslooking2]

I found this where I've found other civil war relics and was wondering what this could be or was.

 

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[fyrffytr1]

How big is it?

 

[creskol]

The sole surviving nubbin of an old fireplace poker.

 

[trdking]

The sole surviving nubbin of an old fireplace poker.

That was my first thought but it has too much return curl to be useful? I was think part of a wrought iron fence topper?

 

[Alwayslooking2]

Its flat on one side and half the size of a
Ighter

 

[creskol]

That was my first thought but it has too much return curl to be useful? I was think part of a wrought iron fence topper?

This is what I had envisioned , but at half the size of a lighter, and with what appears to be a child's story figure on it, I am thinking now that it might be a piece of a cast iron toy.