I thought it was an engine valve..... Holton 37 Mouthpiece.

[BLACKIE555]

I have a 10 acre field.... it's stubble and freezing over, the shovel is becoming disobedient.
It says Frank Holton Chicago 37 Pat.March 1914 385 .

I dug several melt blobs and some engine parts....I about tossed it into my burn pile - but the frozen corn cob fell off and betrayed it as something unexpected. Love it.
Also uncovered a primitive looking brass buckle? The iron middle part was just a stain in the dirt.

 

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[Digger RJ]

Nice!!!! Congrats!!!!

 

[IDXMonster]

Yeah...that’s a mouthpiece for a tuba, or a Sousaphone, or an ElephantPhone....that thing is GINORMOUS!! What a cool find in the middle of a field! What the??.....and where’s the rest of the instrument?? You just NEVER know.....how cool!
On a related “note”....my Dad is in a nursing home called Holton Manor in Elkhorn,WI. This facility was started and funded by Mr. Holton, famous maker of musical instruments. He started it as a retirement facility for his employees who needed specialty care as my father does, his legacy lives on to this day. Holton was an extremely brilliant and generous man who had several innovations in the musical instrument arena. Not bad for a guy who started life as a farm boy! And YOU find the mouthpiece on the remnants of...a farm. How fitting.

 

[Wildcat1750]

Wow...
How does something like that find its way into the middle of a farm field?