✅ SOLVED a... thing... with another ...thing attatched... fishing lure? electronic capacitor?

[TheHappyCanadian]

no idea whatsoever, found in an old park in Vancouver, BC in the same area where relics from early-to-mid 1900's were found



edit: better picture with scale

 

[TheHappyCanadian]

kinda looks like an old tube fuse

 

[MichiganMan]

It looks like a brake line or line to an air-conditioning unit... or something of that type.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Off an Ice box?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I'm guessing an old carbon film resistor.

 

[wecoyote]

Looks like part of a light bulb filament support.

 

[TheHappyCanadian]

no idea what it came off of, when I dug it in a park it was 4-6 inches down in what seemed to be backfill due to the abundance of nails I kept dodging. I originally thought resistor but have never seen anything like it before...

 

[maxpower]

glass fuse and or resistor

 

[TheHappyCanadian]

have come to the conclusion that it's either a resistor or a fuse, looks like it's attached to a strip of magnesium or similar metal which leads me to believe it's some sort of electrical thermometer. Definitely going in the "odd finds" bin on top of our fridge