Is this a bayonette?

[Mona Lisa]

I went diggin' today at a farmhouse established in the 1850's. This is something I dug from the back corner of the house.

It's very sharp. What is it?

 

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[Drache]

looks like one to me

 

[Montana Jim]

Lightning rod...

 

[olepossum]

looks like the pike to a flag pole used during the civil war when they would have the unit banner on a pole and put the pole in the stirrup

 

[Drache]

Lightning rod...

not THAT is hilarious!

 

[Montana Jim]

Lightning rod...

not THAT is hilarious!

I missed it... what's hilarious?

 

[Drache]

Lightning rod...

not THAT is hilarious!

I missed it... what's hilarious?

I meant to say "now that is hilarious" meaning that it sure appears to be the top of a weather vane/lightning rod like the one you pictured. I never would have thought about it.

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Jim could be right,if she takes another pic of the other side and it has alot of bend on the piece in the center ,then is was not likely made to slide in someones body.To kill

 

[Montana Jim]

Jerry Reed - Lightning Rod 1977 8)

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[Mona Lisa]

Here's a picture looking down the shaft of it. It's three sided.

 

[possumheaded]

Neat Find! I agree with the lightning rod theory.

Ed

 

[mojjax]

I like Jim's Lightning Rod idea .
It looks alot like a Ben Franklin Type . Woudn't it be cool if it's an original "Ben"

Nice find!


http://www.fi.edu/learn/sci-tech/lightning-rod/lightning-rod.php?cts=benfranklin-weather-electricity

"Franklin began to advocate lightning rods that had sharp points. His English colleagues favored blunt-tipped lightning rods, reasoning that sharp ones attracted lightning and increased the risk of strikes; they thought blunt rods were less likely to be struck. King George III had his palace equipped with a blunt lightning rod. When it came time to equip the colonies' buildings with lightning rods, the decision became a political statement. The favored pointed lightning rod expressed support for Franklin's theories of protecting public buildings and the rejection of theories supported by the King. The English thought this was just another way for the flourishing colonies to be disobedient to them."

 

[sniffer]

Jim, you beat me to it. we had ones like that on our house when I was growing up

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

lightning rod

 

[texan connection]

Glad to see you getting out Mona lisa, Funny find. That one was done here just a couple months ago, But not as straight as yours.

 

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[Mona Lisa]

No, Nicky, not a wart. I'm a neon sign glass bender. I work with a hot fire all day long...and sometimes I goof and burn myself. It's my latest burn.

Why are you looking so closely at my fingers? :P

 

[Mona Lisa]

No, Nicky, not a wart. I'm a neon sign glass bender. I work with a hot fire all day long...and sometimes I goof and burn myself. It's my latest burn.

Why are you looking so closely at my fingers? :P

Looks like a wart to me ...

Don't post pic's of your finger's if you don't want Nicky sleuthing them ... :P :P

PS ... I cook REMEMBER ... in OUR professions it's NOT crash & burn ... it's GOOF & BURN ...

~ Nicky ~

I knew I should have hired a hand model for that picture.

 

[Mona Lisa]

Jerry Reed - Lightning Rod 1977 8)

Sooo.....Zesty......Jerry Reed made that lightning rod in 1977?

 

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