✅ SOLVED Another Cast Iron Relic Mystery??

[36coupe]

Once again looks familiar being first thought a skeleton key when pulled out of the hole. Found side yard of early 1865 home with a number of broken kitchen utensils. Six inches long it does not look like a utensil or even a stove lid lifter. All there with the underside hollow. Any ideas??

 

[Peyton Manning]

knife sharpening steel?

 

[Tony in SC]

Wild guess, Cheese Plugger? Tony

 

[kcm]

Looks like a hitch pin.

 

[dirtwizard]

it's a pin. probably has a hole for a cotter or hairclip on the end opposite the handle. it would be used for securing a trailer hitch to a receiver or some farm implement to a tractor, etc.

dang it KCM beat me by a few minutes!

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I like Tony in SC's idea.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

It isn't round stock.It is concave a C shape like half a pipe.

 

[kcm]

I give up.

Sorry, completely missed the point when you said it was hollow on the underside. Strange, indeed!

 

[creskol]

It might be a key that goes to a lock similar to this one:

 

[RustyGold]

Hot skillit extender handle.

 

[tamrock]

Looking at a cheese plugger, I'm kind of thinking Tony could be right about it also. I also like what creskol has provided.

 

[36coupe]

Tony in SC-- I think you have the right idea here--this tool used to insert into a cheese wheel to test its aging progress. THANK YOU!