Some type of hook, and mystery glass.

[West Jersey Detecting]

I found this hook while detecting a house that dates back to the 1840's or earlier. Any ID on this?

I also dug many glass chunks like the two pictured. Note the quarter on one to give you an idea of the size. Any clue as to why these glass chunks were burried and what they are?

 

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[Montana Jim]

I dunno about the hook thing - but if a fella put that on the end of a long pole he could decorate with Christmas lights with no problems!

 

[kieser sousa/rip]

I dont know about the hook,but the glass is slag glass,I think.

 

[flyinguy]

i remember in grade school there was a hook with a long pole to open and close the high windows and blinds. i haven't been in grade school for about 47 years but it looks similar. the glass, huh? i found melted, layered glass from an old burned out house. doesn't look the same. some one will know. Bill

 

[ivan salis]

possible old electric insalators that melted in a fire? == the hook item looks like it might go on a pole to move push or pull a switch or manipulate something up high

 

[Angelo]

I dont know about the hook,but the glass is slag glass,I think.

Here's a pic of Slag Glass.

Tony

 

[aa battery]

I dont know about the hook,but the glass is slag glass,I think.

Here's a pic of Slag Glass.

Tony

uumm what is slag glass

 

[alkoz]

Theres a few thing slag glass could have been used for.They were probably bottles at once, but the bottles were made different or got messed up, so they melted them into glass blocks, but it never got used. Glass they used to makeinsulators. Or its the glass they use for making marbles. Yours looks like glass they used for bottles. Is there alot of milky swirls in them. Were you mear a factory when you found the glass slag?

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Is there alot of milky swirls in them. Were you mear a factory when you found the glass slag?

I was not near a factory. The area is very residential, with homes dating back to the 18th century. It was never an industrial town, however it was once a hub for commerce, with many shops. The homeowner kept the slag, but best I can recall there was no milky swirl in them.

 

[Rancho Leo]

What you have there is the top of a lineman's layup stick. I used that tool for 20 years as a telephone repairman.
here is a picture of the modern version

 

[Monty]

What is a layup stick and how is it used? Monty

 

[Rancho Leo]

this link explaines the use pretty good .... http://www.layupsticks.com/ of course they can be used for whatever you can imagine... they are like a third hand...

 

[ivan salis]

humm with the lay up stick being IDed--and with it being used with electricail (phone) lines and such --I'm strongly thinking old fashoined electricial insulators --- Ivan

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

humm with the lay up stick being IDed--and with it being used with electricail (phone) lines and such --I'm strongly thinking old fashoined electricial insulators --- see the hole in the middle where it would have been nailed to wood ? Ivan

If you are speaking of the glass, that is a US quarter, not a hole!

 

[Angelo]

What you have there is the top of a lineman's layup stick. I used that tool for 20 years as a telephone repairman.
here is a picture of the modern version

GALT!! Very Nice!

I looked all over for a picture or explanation under Lineman's Tools and got zilch.

Tony

 

[ivan salis]

opps my bad not a hole --still think being the linesmans tool is there --that its insulator glass

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

opps my bad not a hole --still think being the linesmans tool is there --that its insulator glass

That is quite possible; there were glass insulators in the ground as well.

 

[Monty]

So, they attach a pole to the end that is a non-conductor. I wondered how they used a metal tool and didn't get fried! Thanks! Monty

 

[ivan salis]

humm with a linesman tool (for handling elictrical wires at a distance --they were placed on the end of long wooden poles )--- along with insulators being found in the ground and the statement that glass "items"were being made at there ---
I personally think its most likely bulk glass slag left over from from making of the "insulators" ---- all these things being found in the same area, tend to point in the direction of an glass insulator making spot --- what do you think? --the color of the chunk with the quarter on it looks very much like the color of a old time type glass insulators to me.--- Ivan

 

[Ray S S]

Those pieces of glass look like pieces of old bottles that have been in a very hot fire, like a house fire; or maybe a place with a lot of chemicals cought fire and some of the bottles melted and ran together. I have seen the remains of melted bottles from long ago and are similar to those pictured.

Ray karenray08.