Found this in a box at an estate sale in Visalia, CA. The best guess was a bottle opener. I don't think so, but that's what it will become if I can't identify it. Maybe it will anyway!
It looks like its designed to handle heat. It has feet, so we are looking at it upside down. The small hole looks like its for a handle to be inserted like a outdoor grill grate wrench. The large hole is interesting and could be just for letting the heat through or it could be designed to hold a cup or at least a round bottom vessel, like one to melt lead. It's design appears to be to keep your hand away from the heat and for balance. The 43 means something, I don't know.
Cool item to figure on, thanks.
I think it's a combination spanner wrench of some kind made specific for the installation and removal of some spanner nut on any thing from a printing press to an oil rig. What ever it was made for I can't find it, as there are some many different designs that can do one or more functions?. This one was made specific only to work on some nut of a Maytag washing machine.
The pic doesn't show it, but there are very short nubs (3) on the other side so it is elevated just a bit. The taper ( countersink?) between the numbers seems to indicate this is the up side. Still a mystery. I'm leaning towards a part of a coal or wood stove...
No idea dude, however if it where my find I would clean it up and use it for some sort of display stand in my house. Maybe a little clay cup inside to hold some pens in my study.