ok...I give up!

[large cent hunter]

I found this in a city of 100,000 in the northeast. It is metal, not rusty, and came from the ground as you see it here. One side has lines scored in it in a fairly irregular pattern, creating sort of squares.
It does not appear to be broken or missing anything. THe backside is fairly nondescript with many irregularities in it.
I give up! What the heck is this?

 

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[mike63]

baby turtle armor? wierd dont know

 

[CRUSADER]

Homemade lead weight?

 

[hollowpointred]

reminds me of a wieght for a coocoo (sp)clock

 

[sniffer]

petrified half ham LOL

 

[lonesomebob]

Poor mans waffel press

 

[Ant]

It goes on some kind of clamp or gripping tool, be it pliers or tongs.

 

[boomer46901]

Piece of a pineapple hand grenade??

 

[Ramitt]

Piece of a pineapple hand grenade??

Lol, It reminded me of that too, but it is way to small.

 

[bradgny]

loaf of bread from a doll house.....

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

loaf of bread from a doll house.....

'Ya know, that was one of my thoughts. I have seen little cast iron toy stoves and wondered if that might not be a companion piece for one of those.

I have also seen tractor pedals that have a pattern like that. Does it look like the back may have had a stalk that snapped off?

 

[JOE(USA)]

large cent hunter,

You should have showed us a photo of the reverse side also. It looks to me like an old brass(?) coat button. Joe

 

[alpha78]

It looks like a small foot-pad off of an IH tractor. They usually controled things with a foot operated pedal of this size.

 

[Montana Jim]

It looks like a small foot-pad off of an IH tractor. They usually controled things with a foot operated pedal of this size.

I dunno... Carl Memke's Tractor Museum is 10 miles down the road from me here and I've been there a bunch of times. Even the oldest trucks, tractors and farm equipment that run on steam or were horsedrawn had correctly machined pedals and workings.

This piece looks like extreamly crude cross-hatching and nothing like a machined piece to me. IMO

 

[txkickergirl]

Part of a meat press thingy

 

[CoolFrayers]

Some poor baby ninja turtle is walking around defenseless

 

[large cent hunter]

Alot of responses; few legitimate.

This thing is small. Too small to be a pedal from a tractor. It's about as big as the last digit on my finger. It's very heavy, too heavy for a button. I wouldn't want too many of these on my jacket. It doesn't look broken on the back, but is very irregular.

I'll post some more pics.

 

[large cent hunter]

More pics.

 

[Montana Jim]

maybe some slag fell on a screen (type thing) or something simple like that...

 

[CRUSADER]

maybe some slag fell on a screen (type thing) or something simple like that...

sounds about right