🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Any ideas on this one?

[Mike from MI]

A friend found this. One person suggested a reins guide.

 

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[ticndig]

step back and take some out of hand pics

 

[Blackfoot58]

It appears to be a lockable device. I’m guessing it can go through a chain, a valve handle, a hasp, etc and be padlocked. A picture of the back would help.

 

[Red-Coat]

We need some alternative and unobstructed views of it... but might it be part of this hay sling?:

 

[GlowingArtist]

Old store mounted bottle opener. Bottom section off the middle has opening loop.

 

[Red-Coat]

Old store mounted bottle opener. Bottom section off the middle has opening loop.

That would be a really weird construction... and I didn't find any related patents with that date.

 

[Bramblefind]

As a follow-up to Red-Coat's patent find, this Worthpoint listing placed another of these items in a group of Hay Sling parts -

VTG CAST IRON HAY TROLLEY PULLEY SLING PARTS RELEASE PAT 1891 THE BOSS 10 PIECES | #1992428708

This group of 11 old cast iron hay sling parts are in great shape with nothing broken, cracked, chipped or repaired & all function as they should - one latch/release is marked THE BOSS H197 & H198 & a

www.worthpoint.com

 

[Retired Sarge]

A variation of all this stuff here. These are vintage hay sling parts, as Red-Coat alluded to.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Wow Bramblefind posted his response as I was typing mine. Apparently he types way faster than I do.......