bike or tractor peddle or something else????

[hooziz2005]

found this 8 inches down, under a 3 inch diameter tree root, any ideas what it is

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

Thats a curry comb for horses and Im pretty sure its an old one. The handle is missing or it may have just had a finger ring.

 

[NolanTheExplorer]

curry comb without a doubt.
probably had a wooden handle back in its prime-or piece of metal looped to wrap around top of hand. neat find!

attachments:
photo 1 & 2: prussian M1960 CC (WWII)
photo 3: revolutionary war CC

-nolan

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Just speaking up to offer confirmation of BigCypressHunter's (and DeadheadDigger's) ID of the object. It is definitely a mid-1800s/late-1800s currycomb. That type is distinguished by the form of the "comb" segments -- they resemble a hacksaw-blade (a folded piece of flat sheet-iron or shhet-brass having many-many short triangular teeth). The civil war era currycombs we dig from civil war cavalry campsites look essentially identical to the one dug by Hooziz2005 ...although most are made of iron rather than brass.

As a "supplement" to the 1880s Patent-diagram posted by BigCypressHunter, here's a photo showing a Hotchkiss Sons currycomb patented in 1848 and 1856. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of its underside, showing the many-many short triangular teeth. But this photo shows how the wooden handle was attached to the open-framework comb's sheet-iron body.

 

[Monty]

I found a curry comb very similar on the old Chisholm Trail back during CTI in Kansas, so yep, that's it. Monty

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Green check?

 

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