mystery item still unidentified, virginia

[Ifoundit69]

I found this a few months back written everyone I know and have yet to identify it ,ive attached pics of item it measures 2 1/4 inches long 5/8s of a inch wide curved in the back with the symbol of a winged snake wrapped around a arrow . Pottery found dating late 1600's to early 1700's .

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

Keep trying. Good pic. Can you post a pic of the back please?... would help. Also put a coin or something in picture to size. What type of metal is it? http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,117700.0.html

 

[diggummup]

Interesting. This is all I can come up with-

The Renaissance brought new sources of imagery for both embroidery and other decorative arts. Allegorical and mythological subjects were culled from so-called emblem books and from prints illustrating the works of classical authors. Emblem books in particular provided intriguing motifs with esoteric meanings that flattered the educated patron and inspired needleworkers and other designers alike. For example, the emblem of a serpent coded around a strawberry plant at the lower right of the cushion cover in Plate V was probably inspired by a woodcut in the first English emblem book, Geoffrey Whitney's Choice of Emblemes and other devises [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED].(6) There it was accompanied by the warning, "Latet anguis in herba" (literally, "A snake lies in the grass," or more elegantly, "There is concealed danger"). Emblems showing snakes entwined around plants, staffs, and arrows were quite common and not only recur frequently on the cushion cover but were also used by jewelers. Elizabeth I received a jeweled pin depicting a snake wrapped around an arrow as a New Year's gift from the countess of Oxford in 1583.(7)

and this emblem from here-http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/french/emblem.php?id=FALc020-

 

[Mackaydon]

Probably not a fancy shower curtain hook.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Besides the snake and the arrow, is there something else on this item? I see the fletching but what is that behind the point? I cant see it-- where is the snake's head?


Would be nice to see a clear pic of the back and identity of metal. Is it brass?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Ok thanks. Now I see it. I see the eye and the mouth...funny chin...maybe its the tongue hanging out. I was looking at it upside down or sideways. The "hook" may go down like you have pictured.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Im moving a picture of the back from the old post. Not very clear.
The "hook" part is smaller than I realized; smaller than a quarter.

 

[Copperhead]

Looks like a bottle opener... ....

 

[downindixie]

Looks like part of a keychain latch.The notch at the beginning of the hook is missing the keeper.

 

[shanegalang]

Looks like a key to me.