✅ SOLVED Looks like an ear of corn

[DiggerKeith]

Found this the other day it read a silver dime on my at pro. It looks like a ear of corn its about 6 inches long very heavy about 2 pounds. when I scratched back side it shined up either silver or lead.
Any idea what this is and what it was used for?

 

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[Deftone]

Look's like a cornbread mold that someone used it for pouring lead into. Two pounds tho. Cool find.

 

[kcm]

Back in the old days, there were cast iron corn cookers that would cook over a camp fire or in an old fireplace. Like mentioned above, there were also these that some would make cornbread in. Don't know if there was any difference in the items, or if they were just used for multiple things. Oh, and lots of times something like this was heated, butter was melted in it, then the cooked corn-on-the-cob was dipped in the melted, mouth-watering butter!!

 

[DiggerKeith]

this is soft metal and solid i thought it could have been a paperweight im almost certain its solid lead,,

 

[DiggerKeith]

paperweight?

 

[kcm]

Is it magnetic? If not, then probably lead, and NOT very good for melting butter in!

 

[Deftone]

I mean someone might have used a cornbread mold and put in lead to make it.. I love my cornbread! Or a corn on the cob mold... >mold< It must be lead.... Now I want cornbread. I would look for a pic but I'm watching the walking dead. Sorry!

 

[garren]

I mean someone might have used a cornbread mold and put in lead to make it..

My uncle did this very thing. He would melt down scrap lead (old wheel weights, fishing weights or spent bullets) for reloading purposes. He poured the cleaned lead into cast iron corn muffin pans to make his ingots. When he passed away I threw out ALL of his cast iron mufffin pans when I found lead ingots shaped like biscuits and corn cobs.

I did a google image search for lead corn weight and it looks like my uncle wasn't the only one that used the cornbread pan for an ingot mold.

 

[AlabamaRelic]

My uncle did this very thing. He would melt down scrap lead (old wheel weights, fishing weights or spent bullets) for reloading purposes. He poured the cleaned lead into cast iron corn muffin pans to make his ingots. When he passed away I threw out ALL of his cast iron mufffin pans when I found lead ingots shaped like biscuits and corn cobs.

I did a google image search for lead corn weight and it looks like my uncle wasn't the only one that used the cornbread pan for an ingot mold.

I have also seen lead ingots that were cast the same way.

 

[mojjax]

cuckoo clock weight

 

[gunsil]

Yup, I have melted down hundreds of pounds of scrap lead and I have an old cornbread cast iron mold that I pour it into for my ingots. Then I melt the ingots which are now clean lead alloy (wheel weights aren't pure lead) in another pot to cast my fishing sinkers. P.S. old wheel weights are not good for casting bullets since they usually contain antimony which is not good for firearm bores. I used to cast a lot of muzzle loading bullets and only used scrap like old plumbing, roof flashing and wire sheathing which is much purer lead than wheel weights. If the back is flat it is not a clock weight. Cuckoo clock weights are made to look like pine cones, not corn.

 

[vhs07]

I've made quite a few of those. drilled a hole in them for throw line weights on the river.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Is it round or flat on one side? If round I will have to agree with mojjax that it is a clock weight.

 

[DiggerKeith]

It is flat on the back side. wonder why the guy would have thrown that in his yard? Thanks for the info on the item friends. Nice to know what it was.