need help figuring out what this is please?!?!

[coldinthed]

Found on a site with a house circa 1840 any ideas?

 

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[parsonwalker]

If you turned it sideways, could it be a lantern base designed to be mounted on a vertical surface like a wall or carriage? The finial would hang underneath?

 

[coldinthed]

thank you! and maybe so.................. from what i can tell it is cast brass and the bottom unscrews from the tp

If you turned it sideways, could it be a lantern base designed to be mounted on a vertical surface like a wall or carriage? The finial would hang underneath?

 

[Silver Searcher]

I think it's a light/lamp from a carriage, turn it side ways.

SS