Anchor??

[RKinOI]

Found this at a teardown site in Southport N.C. It looks like an anchor from a toy but I don"t think it is. The bottom part is kinda offset from the part with the loop and there are little barbs on the part right under the loop and on the ends of the bottom part.It looks like it might hook on the edge of something.

 

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[BigRon]

Looks like a kind of hanger.

 

[captain Jack]

does look like a hanger, but I believe it is a kind of belt buckle. Or a buckle from something. The posts are offset , or leaning so they can go into two holes. I could be wrong though. I thought I saw one of those on here recently. Nice find!

 

[CRUSADER]

Ninja Weapon.

 

[wesfrye53]

Definitely too small for an anchor ...unless it's a radio-controlled craft

 

[Lafitte]

Buckle hanger for a razor strop?

 

[CodyCat Borat]

What you have found is an old instrumental tuning fork. (before 1900)

The new ones are turned the opposite direction.

http://www.lehmanscientific.com/p_tunefk.html

http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/tuning-fork.html

 

[Montana Jim]

Tuning forks are aluminum... I use them to tune radar guns

This piece is iron?

 

[bucketofguts]

hummmm!? still thinking. ben

 

[bucketofguts]

thinking a hanger too. old homes use to have picture hanging molding on the walls. this might be the hanger. imhp! a big guess on my part. thanks for taking the time. cool! ben

 

[Montana Jim]

thinking a hanger too. old homes use to have picture hanging molding on the walls. this might be the hanger. imhp! a big guess on my part. thanks for taking the time. cool! ben

I thought of that too... but did not find an example that resembles the whatsit... here is one good site: http://swanpicturehangers.com/rail_hooks.shtml

 

[Angelo]

It may be a hanger for poster board. Just the way you are holding it would be the bottom and the top bracket would be in reverse.

Just a guess.

Tony

 

[CodyCat Borat]

Tuning forks are aluminum... I use them to tune radar guns

This piece is iron?

A tuning fork is a simple metal two-pronged fork with the tines formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic material (usually steel). A tuning fork resonates at a specific constant pitch when set vibrating by striking it against a surface or with an object, and after waiting a moment to allow some high overtones to die out. The pitch that a particular tuning fork generates depends on the length of the two prongs, with two nodes near the bend of the U.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuning_fork

 

[Montana Jim]

Tuning forks are aluminum... I use them to tune radar guns

This piece is iron?

A tuning fork is a simple metal two-pronged fork with the tines formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic material (usually steel). A tuning fork resonates at a specific constant pitch when set vibrating by striking it against a surface or with an object, and after waiting a moment to allow some high overtones to die out. The pitch that a particular tuning fork generates depends on the length of the two prongs, with two nodes near the bend of the U.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuning_fork

Your are correct Cody, sorry, some are made from a high quality Sheffield Steel, but - alas - some are made of aluminum: http://shopping.msn.com/results.aspx?text=aluminum&scId=4

wikipedia is suspect for reasearch - always back up your "wiki-data".

Unfortunately, despite it's composition, do they not always open away from the handle (sic)? Hence the term "fork"? I've never seen one open backwards.

 

[ivan salis]

a small type of salvage hook --- maybe for getting a crab trap up or something like that----tie line in the hole --- throw it out----then drag back---and see what you snagged---just a guess--- this explains both the "hole in the shank" and the "barbed" ends--Ivan

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Tuning forks are aluminum... I use them to tune radar guns

This piece is iron?

A tuning fork is a simple metal two-pronged fork with the tines formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic material (usually steel). A tuning fork resonates at a specific constant pitch when set vibrating by striking it against a surface or with an object, and after waiting a moment to allow some high overtones to die out. The pitch that a particular tuning fork generates depends on the length of the two prongs, with two nodes near the bend of the U.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuning_fork

You'll never see a tuning fork with right-angle bends . . . regardless of the time frame. It would be like trying to tune a guitar string with a kink in it.

I'd say hanger of some type.

 

[Wetgreenie]

[You'll never see a tuning fork with right-angle bends . . . regardless of the time frame. It would be like trying to tune a guitar string with a kink in it.

I'd say hanger of some type.
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I agree with that.....I don't see how it could really work as a tuning fork.