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

Groundhogg

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Blackfoot58

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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
 

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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 🤣
 

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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.
 

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