✅ SOLVED Like a drawer pull, but heavy duty.

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

When I found it, I thought drawer pull, and another one was recently posted, that guy thinks drawer pull, but it just too heavy.

There is nothing quite like it on google images searched "antique drawer pulls" and nothing quite like in images "trunk handles"

So thought I give it a try here, someones knows definitively.

Thanks for looking. And any help.

 

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[kuger]

off a Coffin?

 

[mojjax]

Looks old . Was it found near the ocean ? Maybe a hatch handle to a ship - I do like Kugar's coffin handle idea !

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Looks old . Was it found near the ocean ? Maybe a hatch handle to a ship - I do like Kugar's coffin handle idea !

Both good ideas, neither crossed my mind.
Near ocean, not so far, as you can't get very far from it in NS.

 

[kuger]

I swear I seen a small version of that shape that was attributed to an early Musket sling?

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Found some similarly shaped items under hatch latch handles. The top 3 or 4 rows here, "might" be a step in the right direction.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=musk...&q=old+ship+hatch+latch+handles&tbm=isch&um=1

 

[Iron Patch]

I've seen these quite often so my guess is trunk.

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

I've seen these quite often so my guess is trunk.

Trunk is very logical too, as I'm sure many folks had one.

 

[Moonrover]

I saw an antique carpenter's tool chest with handles very similar to that.

 

[ivan salis]

large chest type handle or coffin handle

 

[dozer dan]

If you notice it would be too small for a grown ups hand to get a good grip. I'm thinking you're holding it upside down and it could be a fold down carriage / buggy or wagon step. Possibly even for an old car or truck

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Rick sent me a PM asking me to comment on the object. I'd already read the discussion but chose not to comment because I didn't have any "conclusive" ID-info to add to it. But because he requested my thoughts, here they are.

It definitely is not a rifle-sling swivel. Note the"swell" at the center of this object's loop. A rifle-sling swivel's loop is lozenge-shaped, because the sling (strap) is flat-bodied.

When somebody suggested the object is a coffin-handle, I almost replied that it is too small for that purpose.. but didn't because another posted said it before I could. In addition to its small size, the "swell" in its loop indicates it is intended for two-finger pulling.

Although the photos posted by Creskol are helpful (and worth saving for future identifications), I note that none show a loop which is attached to a flat strap, as this loop is.

Being attached to the end of a flat strap suggests to me that it was intended for pulling straight-upward, rather than "toward you" like a doorhandle or drawer-pull is used. You'll notice that the brass strap shows a broken-through screwhole, which is about 1.5-inches away from the strap's end where the handle is attached. Thus, pulling the handle "toward you" with much force would tend to bend the end of the brass strap outward from whatever it was screwed onto. Repeated forceful pulling "in the wrong direction" would eventually cause metal-fatigue to the brass strap, causing it t break at the screwhole attachment-point. I suspect that that is how this object got broken off whatever it was attached to.

As I said at the begining, I realize that these observations do not provide a conclusive ID of the object. I've contributed them because I was asked to do so by the object's finder. I can only hope they might lead somebody to the conclusive ID.

 

[kuger]

my comments were WAGS,pure speculation,guesses,and from a dim mental picture

 

[creskol]

Rather than posting what may be interpreted as misleading, I went ahead and deleted my posts so as not to add any additional confusion to the thread.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Swivel handle, could be of anything made of wood or leather.

SS

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

In my opnion, there was no need to delete your posts, Creskol. I said they were helpful, and worth saving for future identifications. I was going to Copy the photos into my computer's relic-ID-photos folder... tonight after my wife goes to be and won't be interrupting me with honey-do requests.

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

For what it's worth, I didn't see anything misleading.

 

[kuger]

?Door knocker
previousfinds

^^^^^^^^^this is a link,and if you scroll down in it......

 

[creskol]

In my opnion, there was no need to delete your posts, Creskol. I said they were helpful, and worth saving for future identifications. I was going to Copy the photos into my computer's relic-ID-photos folder... tonight after my wife goes to be and won't be interrupting me with honey-do requests.

They simply were not serving in the ID of this item. They were sorta like posting a photo of a screwdriver when trying to ID a wrench.

 

[Roland58]

?Door knocker
previousfinds

^^^^^^^^^this is a link,and if you scroll down in it......

Oh way to go, Kuger! That was going to be my guess......a door knocker. You "one upped" me on this one!