What is This????

[Jet54]

Found on a recent cub scout camping trip with my son. It was on the ground in a grove of pine trees at the scout camp ground in Central Illinois.

Can't figure out what it is, but it definitely looks hand forged

 

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[curbdiggercarl57]

Bracelet? Any writing on it?

 

[PBK]

What's the metal? It looks like a steel flint striker.

 

[tulecanyon]

it looks like a striker for a flint fire starter kit.

 

[Jet54]

Pretty sure it's iron and it looks like possibly JIA stamped into it.

I think it's too small for a bracelet, and the edges aren't smooth.

Other folks have suggested that's its a drawer pull, but there would be no where to attached it as the little scrolls on the end seem to delicate for something like that.

 

[Jet54]

Flint striker would make absolute sense, seeing that it's a scout campground

 

[Jet54]

Looks like you guys are right

http://www.possibleshop.com/fire-striker.htm

Mystery solved.....Thanks for the help!

 

[Native1858]

Yeppers, flint striker.

 

[trikikiwi]

I love learning new stuff every day, Thanks