✅ SOLVED 1-1/4" Brass ball

[mick56]

1-1/4" diameter brass ball, has a hole in it with wood still in there. The hole is about 3/8" diameter. Was found at a scout camp that was probably farmland at one time.

 

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[dozer dan]

I’m betting that if the wood was removed you’d find female threads inside the hole.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I was thinking a shift knob from a tractor but that wouldn't be wood inside unless the wood was put into it after the fact.

 

[Joseph2867]

Lamp finial possibly

 

[1637]

it looks like something you would play drums with

 

[ticndig]

maybe a curtain rod ball end or a flag pole topper?

 

[mick56]

Yes, the inside is threaded, 3/8 x 24. I thought it may be a flagpole topper, just seems small.

 

[Tony in SC]

1-1/4" diameter brass ball, has a hole in it with wood still in there. The hole is about 3/8" diameter. Was found at a scout camp that was probably farmland at one time.

Looks like one of the flyballs from a small pickering steam engine governor? The 3/8 thread would be about right.

 

[Georgivs]

Givin its provenance my money is on flagpole topper. Of course that doesn't mean that's what it started out its life as.

 

[Gare]

Maybe decorative top pieces of a bed frame ?

 

[xr7ator]

It could be just a drawer pull.