🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Any ideas what this iron piece is from?

[matthewc61]

Could be off an old tool, I see a # 23 in center of object, could be my imagination, cast iron piece dug up east Texas old farm or timber site

 

[creskol]

I reminds me of some of the cast iron handles I have seen on chisels, similar in nature to this one:

 

[Brokenbear]

Kind of small but maybe a "key" to lift a round top plate from a small wood burning stove or heater

Bear

 

[invent4hir]

Following-up on creskol's idea, if you look at the end in the picture nearest the "3" does it appear that another piece of metal was screwed in there?

 

[matthewc61]

Following-up on creskol's idea, if you look at the end in the picture nearest the "3" does it appear that another piece of metal was screwed in there?

Yes it has

Following-up on creskol's idea, if you look at the end in the picture nearest the "3" does it appear that another piece of metal was screwed in there?

it has a roundish end , see close up in my new picture

 

[Viddy]

Some kind of key? It looks like the initials NIR are cast on it.

 

[matthewc61]

Some kind of key? It looks like the initials NIR are cast on it.

Not sure, I can t read letters , I read a 23 looking at it vertically

 

[Sam moser]

The end of a handle for a large spoon or ladle?

 

[matthewc61]

The end of a handle for a large spoon or ladle?

Not sure , it 3 inches only , then it tappers down to the rounded tip, post above yours says may be a chisel end piece, but again the handle would only be 3 “ , seems short for that. It looks like the end of a crescent wrench handle, but to short for that as well. Thank for input everyone.