looks like the hot end of a thermalcouple for a furnace or hot water heater
but could be wrong
what are its dimensions and is there any markings on it
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The more I look at it it looks like a handle to a flashlight? Looks like you can see the spiral of glue reside for where the spring was glued on to the inside of base cap.
No way is that a pipe of any kind.... It is metal (I'm assuming) and would get VERY hot and there is no hole for smoke to pass thru on the cap end...
Yea, it's copper. Could be a flashlight, but it's really small. A triple a wouldn't fit. Would have to be watch batteries... I dunno though. Last time a house was here was in the forties. It's now pasture land, chimney is still there.