✅ SOLVED Found at a 1800s home site. Any ideas?

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Found at a 1800's home site. Any ideas?

The bottom has a little protruding 'pin' on it and it is quite heavy.

Any ideas?

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I agree. It looks like a vintage PlumbBob.

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Looks like someone was turning a hammer head on a lathe, that little pip is where the piece separated when the parting tool got deep enough. I've made a few in my time. That pip would've been filed off and the piece drilled for the handle. Don't know why it wasn't finished.
 

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Looks like someone was turning a hammer head on a lathe, that little pip is where the piece separated when the parting tool got deep enough. I've made a few in my time. That pip would've been filed off and the piece drilled for the handle. Don't know why it wasn't finished.

The little pip appears to be of a different composite, would that affect your statement at all? I like your idea the best so far as you can see circular marks like what using a lathe would leave.

Edit: I take that back, it's definitely the same material.
 

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I don't know what it is, but the second pic is a cat...Am I right?:laughing7:
 

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It's a catweigh similar to a henweigh!
 

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