✅ SOLVED iron mistery face

[DigIron2]

I have no idea what it went to,but it seems to be some kind of face.I can make out chin,nose,cheek bone and jaw lines,and it almost looks like hair or some kind of helmet? on head.It is a little more than 1 1/2 wide 2 1/2 long ,about 1 inch thick iron and seems to be broken off at the neck.

 

[Breezie]

the back is flat.but it looks like it was broken off from the rest of its iron whatever it was.

Some of the figure andirons were flat in the back and others were full figure. Your head could have snapped off of a doorstop as easily as it could have andirons.

Breezie

 

[DigIron2]

I do hope it was the head off of some statue.2 me that would throw the neat factor up there.I did find a piece of suspender buckle on same site depicting a elephant.Maby african?

 

[DigIron2]

thank you Breezie

 

[nhbenz]

I do hope it was the head off of some statue.2 me that would throw the neat factor up there.I did find a piece of suspender buckle on same site depicting a elephant.Maby african?

If your Suspender clip ws like this this one, then no, not an African piece; http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/347844-very-old-suspender-clip.html

 

[DigIron2]

I would say the piece of suspender buckle is at the latest, late 19th century,but it is hard to tell considering where i dug it.Seems to be a mixture of periods.From colonial to the 195o's.

 

[DigIron2]

Thank you all for your information.I am gonna go with statue head or doorstop.Like allot of things ,guess there is no way to really know for sure.Thanks

 

[Muddyhandz]

Some things are just hard to identify.

Like my mystery piece....






I've got more pictures of this item.

Any chance your piece broke off clean from something like this?

Bit of a long shot but I thought I would share this with you regardless.

From one 1266X user to another!

Cheers,
Dave.

 

[Breezie]

Some things are just hard to identify.

Like my mystery piece....






I've got more pictures of this item.

Any chance your piece broke off clean from something like this?

Bit of a long shot but I thought I would share this with you regardless.

From one 1266X user to another!

Cheers,
Dave.

Dave, have you posted your find in here in the past? If so, can you post the link? I'd like to see more pics. Yours looks like a late Victorian nut cracker. Does it move?

Breezie