Lace puller?

[fernald1]

 

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[4x4x4]

.....Why it looks like you have a Corset Hook ! Is it iron ?
Can someone DATE it ?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It is a horse harness "bearing-rein swivel" invented and patented in 1880 by a Mr. Dowlin, US Patent #223,896. See the diagram in the 1907 Pierson-&-Hough horsegear mail-order catalog, shown in the attached scan, below.

 

[bradyboy]

nice ID

 

[4x4x4]

.....Quick and concise ID !
I haven't spent much time around horses......





.....but CORSETS . . . .....

TKS, TCG.

 

[fernald1]

Thanks cannonballguy!

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

4x4x4 - that's a button hook for shoe buttons.