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

bingbingbing · Nov 4, 2019

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)

ticndig · Nov 4, 2019

maybe it's a dibbler

Rookster · Nov 4, 2019

Kinda favors a upholstery tack.

Digger RJ · Nov 4, 2019

Neat!!! Congrats!!!

arrow86 · Nov 4, 2019

How big is it ?

bingbingbing · Nov 4, 2019

arrow86 said:
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 · Nov 4, 2019

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 · Nov 4, 2019

ticndig said:
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 · Nov 4, 2019

Tabaco Tamper?

vhs07 · Nov 4, 2019

Old needle valve needle?

MRBeyer · Nov 4, 2019

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

Gene Mean · Nov 4, 2019

Golf tee.

Tony in SC · Nov 4, 2019

Does look like an early needle/flow valve.

signal_line · Nov 4, 2019

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

sugarquartz · Nov 4, 2019

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 · Nov 5, 2019

I think Sugarquartz got it . snowmobile lake racer stud.

vhs07 · Nov 5, 2019

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 · Nov 6, 2019

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 ...