✅ SOLVED No idea - rang up '20' on my Equinox

[bingbingbing]

Here's an odd item - any ideas?! Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
(found on a property in central MA that has been lived on since the early 1800's)

 

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[ticndig]

maybe it's a dibbler

 

[Rookster]

Kinda favors a upholstery tack.

 

[Digger RJ]

Neat!!! Congrats!!!

 

[arrow86]

How big is it ?

 

[bingbingbing]

How big is it ?

It's ~2" in length - here's another pic with it next to a battery (which is about the size of a nickel - I didn't have a coin hand so this had to do!)
Thanks,
Eric

 

[ticndig]

I was thinking a dibbler , size matters as well as what it's made of. I now see it's way to small for a dibbler.

 

[bingbingbing]

I was thinking a dibbler , size matters as well as what it's made of. I now see it's way to small for a dibbler.

Thanks for your response!

 

[nkellam22]

Tabaco Tamper?

 

[vhs07]

Old needle valve needle?

 

[MRBeyer]

Looks like an antique artists paint or handyman’s caulking tube seal.

 

[Gene Mean]

Golf tee.

 

[Tony in SC]

Does look like an early needle/flow valve.

 

[signal_line]

That collar looks like it could be some type of threads to screw in to something. So yeah, a needle valve maybe.

 

[sugarquartz]

Looks to be similar to a snowmobile track stud. Its use would be to provide traction to prevent the track from spinning on ice. Normally they are made of steel and yours appears to be brass so i could be wrong , could be from an old piece of logging equipment or sugar tapping too. Do a search of woodys studs on google and see something similar.

 

[ticndig]

I think Sugarquartz got it . snowmobile lake racer stud.

 

[vhs07]

In the photo it looks like brass. If it is steel, I'd agree on the snowmobile stud, but not if it's brass.

 

[bingbingbing]

I'm pretty sure it is brass - and I think it is >100 years old ... but it definitely looks like a snowmobile stud. The property I found it on was a working farm up until the early 1900's ...

 

[digger dug]

could be an awl from an old square for marking.