🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Small brass or silver bar found in river?

[Jay-bird]

1. About 2-3 inches long.
2. No markings, stamps or inscription to be seen.
3. Non-magnetic/does not stick to magnet. Color looks like brass or silver. Very stiff/does not bend, which makes me doubt it being silver.

4. Found while combing sandbanks of the Arkansas river, amidst a pile of old bricks and vintage coke bottles dated around the 1940s. Seems like the remains of a building were dumped or washed down there. If it helps, some 50+ years old pottery has been found in that same spot.

 

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[Rmeav8r]

Possibly part of an old wet cell battery?

 

[ticndig]

tinning solder . see if it scrapes with a knife.

 

[Jay-bird]

tinning solder . see if it scrapes with a knife.

That is a fantastic guess, thank you. I did see a faint horizontal line on one side that looks like the rectangle-shaped indent found on many tinning solder bars. One end of the piece I found does indeed seem melted as well. If nothing else comes up, I'm going with this answer.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Maybe a keel weight for a duck decoy

 

[Rmeav8r]

Maybe a keel weight for a duck decoy

That seems likely to me.....I've seen that shape before...I just couldn't place it.

 

[Gare]

Nice find CONGRATS !!!