✅ SOLVED Some kind of hookamadoo

[Bates]

I've been cleaning this for a while it was just a rusty crusty ball when I found it maybe it's just a really decorative hook of some kind I don't know hoping you know

 

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[Bama Billy]

Pretty sure that’s a hickymabob

 

[Rookster]

Swivel hanger of some sort. Maybe a meat hanger?

 

[Tony in SC]

It is smith made, first with a small eye then remade with a larger eye. I would say that it may have been a gate latch then turned into a line or rope hook.