✅ SOLVED What is this thing?

[flgliderpilot]

I was digging in a field and found this. It was about 8" deep, and most coins I have found there have been about 3" deep, and from the 80's.

I chucked it in my lathe to skim off the corrosion and see what it was made of, and it appears to be brass, with a spiral pattern around it.

I thought it might have been a very old cable crimp... to splice high power lines, but it just seems too thick and heavy for that purpose.

I just looked again and the hole does not go all the way through but instead are just centering dimples drilled at each end.

Maybe it's just a scrap piece of brass bar stock from an old machine shop?

 

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[cudamark]

You're probably correct, but, I think I would have taken a more mild approach to cleaning it until I found out what it was. Is it tapered like it appears in the first photo? Round on the one end?

 

[Dr. Syn]

No clue, but in your first picture it appears to have a square sail ship between the two lines, and a triangle in front of it.
Course it's gone now along with any value since you took a lathe to it.

 

[HAPPYCAMPER]

Brass bushing for a spring shackle maybe?

 

[flgliderpilot]

No clue, but in your first picture it appears to have a square sail ship between the two lines, and a triangle in front of it.
Course it's gone now along with any value since you took a lathe to it.

Interesting that you saw that but HIGHLY doubtful, and perhaps wishful thinking. On the west coast of florida, in the middle of the city under a soccer field, where I find 1980's coins. great effort though thank you!

 

[flgliderpilot]

hmm i dunno I'm thinking it's a random brass bar stock that someone screwed up in and decided to launch it into the field

 

[flgliderpilot]

You're probably correct, but, I think I would have taken a more mild approach to cleaning it until I found out what it was. Is it tapered like it appears in the first photo? Round on the one end?

No, not tapered. Square ends just some corrosion. I'd have been more gentle but the west coast of Florida is not known for many significant old time treasures.... is it?

 

[villagenut]

At this point, it is just a piece of brass.


No, nothin over here but pulltabs and clad

 

[coinman123]

For future reference, it is a bad item to lathe items you don't know what they are, it can ruin some good finds. There are other ways to see what an item is made of. I think you are right on it being a random brass bar stock though. Good luck!

 

[flgliderpilot]

Actually I figured it out. It's a piece of bar stock that was ruined due to a feed error. There are some deep gouges which look like it was ripped out of the chuck or spun in the chuck as the tool dug in hard. I knew it wasn't of any value, I just didn't know if it was from some sort of tool, but now I do know what it is. Thanks.