any ideas? bronze stamp?

[ixKNIVESxi]

the text is backwards so i flipped an image of it.

anapolis? combi? immen?

not enough text for me to discern any sort of subject matter or actual language. latin?

 

[robertk]

I couldn't say what it says but I'd bet it's English. Some guesses:

(Indi)anapolis:
(cro)wds immen(se)?
(th)e combin(ination?)
(o)nce and

Almost looks like part of a news article, but I'd expect that to be typeset with movable type, not fixed.

 

[Almy]

It's a piece of a linotype plate to be used on a printing press, I am pretty sure. Made of type metal, a low-melting metal alloy.

 

[Digger RJ]

the text is backwards so i flipped an image of it.

anapolis? combi? immen?

not enough text for me to discern any sort of subject matter or actual language. latin?

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Cool find !

 

[Trezurehunter]

Neat find.

 

[Puff the Tragic Wagon]

I think I see “-ace” at the bottom, so my guess it’s something pertaining to the “immense crowds” at the Indianapolis Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational, a combination road course and oval racing event.