🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Gate finial? Part of a lightning rod system? I just don't know.

[Groundhogg]

Found this on a horse farm in middle Tennessee. I can date the home on this particular property to 1909. Possibly older. 10 inches tall x 6 1/2 inches wide. Iron. No visible maker marks. 2 halves that slide together. Not one solid piece.

 

[Blackfoot58]

Found this on a horse farm in middle Tennessee. I can date the home on this particular property to 1909. Possibly older.

Neat piece. Reminds me of a funerary item. Possibly from a graveyard. Appears to be a representation of an evergreen tree; emblematic of eternal life. I could be wrong too! Just a guess.

 

[Fourman110]

I think it's just a decorative item. My wife has something like that in a Christmas tree looking version. The two parts slide apart thankfully so we can store it flat for the 11 months a year we don't have it out.

 

[Groundhogg]

Neat piece. Reminds me of a funerary item. Possibly from a graveyard. Appears to be a representation of an evergreen tree; emblematic of eternal life. I could be wrong too! Just a guess.

Now that you mention it does resemble an evergreen tree

 

[Groundhogg]

I think it's just a decorative item. My wife has something like that in a Christmas tree looking version. The two parts slide apart thankfully so we can store it flat for the 11 months a year we don't have it out.

It's definitely decorative...I put it on the side tale next to my chair on the back porch 🤣

 

[GDub62]

Don't really know about your find but I love the hound dog. Had blueticks back in the day. Bloodhound or redbone?

 

[Groundhogg]

Don't really know about your find but I love the hound dog. Had blueticks back in the day. Bloodhound or redbone?

120 pounds of Bloodhound..June Carter Hash Unfortunately she's no longer with us.

 

[GDub62]

120 pounds of Bloodhound..June Carter Hash Unfortunately she's no longer with us.

I'm sorry. Sure you have a lot of good memories