✅ SOLVED Any Ideas

[RelicHnter]

Piece is 3.25 in diameter. 1" tall. Base is either lead or pewter. The tines or bristles are brass or copper

 

[Red James Cash]

I believe it goes in a bottom of a vase in order to make flower arangements.

 

[creskol]

It is a plant/flower holder .. I forget its proper name, but goes in the bottom of a flower arrangement.

Red James Cash nailed it! We posted at the same time, but his hit the board first.

 

[trikikiwi]

Proper name = Frog

 

[RelicHnter]

Thanks

 

[Red James Cash]

Dont sit on it

 

[Anduril]

I was going to guess a flattened porcupine that got run over.

 

[dozer dan]

I believe it goes in a bottom of a vase in order to make flower arangements.

It’s called a Frog.

 

[tamrock]

Frog is what they call, why I don't know? When I worked in a mine they called this thing a frog. They came in handy when a muck car full of dirt came off the track. You'd drag that derail over a frog and most the time the detail would jump back on the track, but not always. If that didn't work you'd get all the mine management coming in to work their ideas and barking orders, especially if you had a main haulage shut down. It was a big deal when no trains could go in and out.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Relichnter, as Tamrock's educational post (it was educational to me, and interesting) shows, there are several types of "frog." Your find is called a flower-frog.