✅ SOLVED Found a few of these... always in water

[Toothpick]

Over the years I have found quite a few of these, always in the same lake.

We just found this one today.

Seems at one time I thought I knew what it was but cant recall now....is it from inside a padlock

Any ideas? I think it is brass.




Thanks

 

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[DCMatt]

These have been IDed on here before but my brain is too full to remember exactly what they are. They seem to have something to do a specialized printing process. Somebody will come along with a link to the old thread...

DCMatt

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Yeah, one of these got id'd here no too long ago, I remember it being a guage for some type of printing, but like Matt I can't remember either

 

[Toothpick]

Thanks Guys, I've been finding these on and off for 25 years in the shallows of a local lake

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Strange thing to find a bunch of, especially in a lake....

 

[pistol-pete]

Looks like a type piece from and old Linotype machine?

 

[Toothpick]

Looks like a type piece from and old Linotype machine?

Right you are!!!!!

Why so many are in a lake is another mystery Perhaps used in groups as duck decoy anchors?? Who knows??

 

[cw0909]

good memory pistol pete

2 others found last year

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/464902-what.html
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/w...allenge-bring-your-best-even-got-numbers.html

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Fish get smart as to what a fishing weight looks like so maybe someone was using those as weights,I have seen old spark plugs used as weights to fool the fish.