Does anyone know what this is?

[NancyPerez]

ok so i found this in an opening in a cabinate that leads to my chimney and i have no idea what is is can someone help me figure out what it is? sorry i dont know how to describe to well the place that i found it. my housw is really old so maybe some one put it there when it was being made?

 

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[nhbenz]

It's a plate to cover unused chimney flues, to keep the smoke from pouring into other rooms, reduce drafts, and keep the kids from sending things into the unknown.

 

[NancyPerez]

Thanks for your help!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Nhbenz is correct, it is an indoor chimney flue (stove pipe-hole) cover. Being an elderly gent, I'm personally familiar with those. When my previous home, located in Spotsylvania County VA was built, in 1943, it had a woodstove for heating in the living-room, and a woodburning cookstove in the kitchen. In both of those rooms, their cylindrical metal smokepipe went into a round hole in the brick chimney, about 6 feet above the floor. In subsequent decades, the woodburners were replaced by an oilburning heater and an electric cookstove. The circular holes in the chimney were covered by the object you found. The wire assembly on the back was the correct diameter to fit snugly into the round hole in the chimney, to hold the decorative cover firmly in place.

By the way, Nancy... I notice that you are a brand-new TreasureNet member. Welcome to T-Net's "What Is It?" forum... the best place on the internet for getting unknown objects CORRECTLY identified. I hope you'll stay with us.

 

[dieselram94]

I see those in a lot of houses around here.

sent from a potato with gravy!!...

 

[NancyPerez]

Thanks so much i really appreciate it!!!

 

[CoilyGirl]

Welcome to the forum Nancy!