Unknown object

[ChadA]

Does anyone know what this is?

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

How big is it?

 

[ChadA]

Here is next to a quarter.

 

[Tuberale]

I'd say a door knocker. A little small, but looks like it would work.

 

[kcm]

Have never see n a door knocker with a hook on top. That was my first thought also. ...That said, just because I've never seen it doesn't mean it ain't out there!

That makes the third pic today that I just don't have a clue about!

 

[ChadA]

It has no moving parts though. All solid and looks identical on the other side.

 

[kcm]

Part of an ornate hanging scale??

 

[Bruce R]

It's upside down in the photo, it's a finial from a parlor stove. The hook went thru a hole in the top of a 2-piece ball, a long bolt with an eye on the end engaged the hook, went out the bottom of the ball, through a hole in the stove top cap and the whole mess was tightened together with a nut and washer.

 

[Carolina Tom]

It's upside down in the photo, it's a finial from a parlor stove. The hook went thru a hole in the top of a 2-piece ball, a long bolt with an eye on the end engaged the hook, went out the bottom of the ball, through a hole in the stove top cap and the whole mess was tightened together with a nut and washer.

You are pretty dang good at this BR! Well played sir.

 

[Bruce R]

Here's one similar, I haven't found an exact match yet.View attachment 1325387

 

[kcm]

@ Bruce -->

I never would have gotten that one!!

 

[Bruce R]

Some of these things even had a long spring instead of the bolt, it compensated for expansion and contraction.

 

[kcm]

Guess I'm a little unclear as to why they would have used a "hook" rather than a "hole", unless the trick was to insert the piece, then swing it trying to hook the rod - as opposed to trying to thread the rod through an unseen eye. ...But then, we can't all be genius ALL the time!

 

[Tommy G]

Wow! BR, you are a regular relic encyclopedia! Never would have guessed that one. I was thinking an ornate plant pot hanger!

 

[Bruce R]

I had one of those stoves in my living room, I took it apart to paint it and you wouldn't believe the trouble I had putting that top together, there were like 9 separate pieces to juggle. I even stopped once to write down some new curse words I invented so I wouldn't forget them.

 

[kcm]

 

[ChadA]

I thought my wife's cousin had figured it out with this picture.