✅ SOLVED When I bought my house in 99 ! I learned that the bottom floor at street level had b

[Bruce R]

When I bought my house in 99' ! I learned that the bottom floor at street lev...

View attachment 1293350View attachment 1293352View attachment 1293353View attachment 1293354View attachment 1293355View attachment 1293356View attachment 1293357View attachment 1293358had been a bar. Floor was shot,tore it up, found this underneath. Base is 2"x6" ,9" tall, weighs 4 pounds, any ideas

 

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[bradyboy]

Guessing the loop on the head is part of a railing setup
looks like it was mounted by 4 screws
maybe for a foot or hand rail:?
Brady

 

[sckimbershot]

View attachment 1293350View attachment 1293352View attachment 1293353View attachment 1293354View attachment 1293355View attachment 1293356View attachment 1293357View attachment 1293358had been a bar. Floor was shot,tore it up, found this underneath. Base is 2"x6" ,9" tall, weighs 4 pounds, any ideas

Possible door stop.

 

[tamrock]

Defiantly a Griffin mounted to something? Maybe in a way like this lamp on some kind of fancy decorative cast iron stairway as mentioned? Pretty fric'n neat find. My guess it's from the later 19th century??

 

[Bruce R]

Bear with me, every time I type out a detailed explanation my post disappears when I hit send

 

[Deftone]

Gonna go with a foot rail holder. Very nice find! Heavy Solid Brass Griffin Foot Rail Holder | eBay

 

[Bruce R]

The place was a bar in the early 1900's, there were 3 trapdoors in the original floor. Apparently when they cleaned up they just swept the trash down the holes cause there's a 4' high crawlspace underneath littered with busted beer mugs and oyster shells

 

[Bruce R]

Wow ! Deftone solved it! Mine is cast iron,but identical. I was guessing a curtain rod holder but at 4 lbs. it was a stretch. Thanx alot man ! I didn't have a detector back then,but I did leave myself a trapdoor in the new floor to access the plumbing. I have a new adventure to plan, that area is 24'x35'

 

[Deftone]

No telling what you'll find down there! Good luck!

 

[Bruce R]

Someone please mark this as solved, I don't know where my thread tools are located. Thanks

 

[cudamark]

Wow ! Deftone solved it! Mine is cast iron,but identical. I was guessing a curtain rod holder but at 4 lbs. it was a stretch. Thanx alot man ! I didn't have a detector back then,but I did leave myself a trapdoor in the new floor to access the plumbing. I have a new adventure to plan, that area is 24'x35'

I think I'd use a sifter and get it all!

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Man I would dig every inch of that crawlspace and screen it all. I'll bet there's some good bottles down there and probably other things that a detector wont find...

 

[fyrffytr1]

Someone please mark this as solved, I don't know where my thread tools are located. Thanks

Go back to the top of this page and your original post. Just above your name you will see a bar. Follow it to the right and you will see thread tools.

 

[Bruce R]

Went down the rabbit hole last night, spent 2hrs. Scanning,first in discr. and again in all metal, found nothing but bottle caps and scraps of copper wire. I still have to do the other side of the wall.View attachment 1293806

 

[kingskid1611]

Man, what an adventure. I would make that the new man cave and sift it all.....

 

[Bruce R]

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