✅ SOLVED from my lawn--

[aka da Prof]

hunted for 25 years, still things come up- very deep indeed-(6-8''). this is 1.2'' long, heavy, primitive and surely a 'whatzit'. I think it is an eagle motif. I thought it was made of lead but is not soft enough, of silvery grey metal, once mounted on a 5/8th piece of wood. Could it have been an end to a ram rod? My house was built in 1860 along a 'First Nation's' path that crossed the creek below my house. Sullivan's army had passed through this area and I have found Spanish Silver in the woods around the surrounding area.
Any ideas of what it might be

 

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[ctalmadg]

Hello Neighbor......Cool looking. Definitely a finial of some sort.... Are you still looking for Sullivan's payroll too?

 

[Tnmountains]

Hard to imagine it on a ram rod what about a swagger stick?

 

[ctalmadg]

Hard to imagine it on a ram rod what about a swagger stick?

Yeah, I was think the handle end of a walking cane etc...

 

[aka da Prof]

not the whole payroll, just his 3 pounder that was rumored to be buried on the trail around Lodi somewhere--
---could be a swagger stick, it could also look like a Mayan serpent, could be 'home made'--

 

[aka da Prof]

perhaps umbrella end??

 

[aka da Prof]

the fellow hunting with me suggested a pummel---e.g.c1812 American Eagle Head Pommel Saber - Antique Perfection) but has the wrong entry, and it was of wood

 

[BosnMate]

sword or cane/walking stick finial?

 

[aka da Prof]

how about a coach whip??

 

[DCMatt]

how about a coach whip??

Hmmm... Good call. Victorian era ladies riding crop.



DCMatt

 

[CRUSADER]

Hmmm... Good call. Victorian era ladies riding crop.

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DCMatt

I was thinking riding crop.

 

[Sheperdess]

You research guys are amazing.

 

[aka da Prof]

!!!! well, By Golly!! it's a 'SOLVED'!! thank you D.C.Matt!! and what might that metal be?? and again, no place is ever hunted out!!!