Any Ideas what this copper is?

[Rolladex]

Found at old home site with a grave yard. It had a bottom but disintegrated when I took it out of the ground.

 

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[GrizLeeBear]

Not a clue. Never saw anything like it.

 

[Breezie]

Was the bottom also copper? Was the bottom flat or was it shaped like the other half? Breezie

 

[Rolladex]

The bottom was rust, it fell apart in my hands.

 

[Breezie]

The bottom was rust, it fell apart in my hands.

You definitely have a strange item, and since it looks like a combination of both brass and copper, I think it could be a Victorian collar button.

Breezie

 

[Bryanhashemi]

looks like a cuff link to me. the middle clasp thing would be used to widen the cuff itself and keep it spaced out.

 

[nhbenz]

Am I seeing correctly that there's a hole in the rod portion? Does it go all the way through, and is it threaded? And lastly, are there grooves on the oval part that would accomodate a rod going through the existing one (or attatch to it, perpendicular to the existing one)?

 

[taz42o]

Maybe had a spring inside , wind the side pieces lay on a flat surface and it takes off walking.? toy?

 

[Paleopilot]

Might be a bell that was used in some religions for the deceased to notify someone that they were in fact "alive!" A line was attached from the casket to the bell. Sometimes postmortem muscle movements caused the bell to ring even when actual death had occurred! Hence the term,"dead ringer". I ain't maken this stuff up! It was found at a burial site, so it might be worth looking into.

 

[Rolladex]

No hole no threads and it smooth all over except for the tit on the shaft and small grove on the shaft end.

 

[Paleopilot]

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Found at old home site with a grave yard. It had a bottom but disintegrated when I took it out of the ground.

There were many varieties of these things of course, but this one is close.