What is it?

[Aolbrantz]

Cast iron? With some green glass?

 

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[mamabear]

where did you find it? could it have been in a fire? & can't see "glass" very well, can you get a better pic?

 

[Aolbrantz]

Found about 20 yds from Fox River, main waterway into Green Bay from Lake Michigan.

 

[JOHUNT]

I think it's some kind of fuel pump. Possibly from a hot bulb oil engine.

 

[Sentrom]

If it is a highly corroded seltzer bottle sprayer, that might explain the glass.

 

[GMD52]

Has the size and rough shape of the lock off of a flintlock firearm, and the place it was found would support that....the glass throws me a little

 

[Aolbrantz]

So here it is cleaned up some. I like the idea of maybe a flint lock hammer? Now that I've looked at others. I do know I will be back to the spot it was found. Thanks.

 

[Mekong Mike]

I agree. looks just like a flintlock hammer.

 

[mick56]

Looks like melted slag.

 

[mamabear]

Mekong Mike, I would be more than happy to take your puppy off your hands. Ours was worth more than gold.

 

[FeS2]

As to the object, seems to me there were some decorative stopcocks that looked like that. Gas lines and such. Don't think it looks quite like the hammer from a firearm.