Odd thing

[Mintberrycrunch]

This rang in a solid a 60. It's a wood ball with a lead weight on the bottom was it a bottle stopper? paper weight? Idk any ideas?

 

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[relic lover]

Colonial Weeble wobble

 

[relic lover]

Are you sure that is wood looks a lot like a butter nut shell

 

[Mintberrycrunch]

Are you sure that is wood looks a lot like a butter nut shell

After a closer look under my loop it must be bone or antler the white u see in the pictures is enamel pealing off not wood underneath. It's not wood for sure

 

[billjustbill]

Not knowing the density, I'd say it's a Black Walnut if it's lightweight, or a meteorite that's been fractured on the back if it's heavy.

Bill

 

[Anduril]

I don't know.

1) An amalgam filling for an acorn?

2) Or maybe something to do with a Decepticon Squirrel storing away food for the winter? (from the Transformers movie franchise)

 

[Mintberrycrunch]

Not knowing the density, I'd say it's a Black Walnut if it's lightweight, or a meteorite that's been fractured on the back if it's heavy.

Bill

found my scale here it is

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Weird,Maybe a black walnut shell filled with lead?

 

[kcm]

Wow! That MUST be the today's most unusual find!

 

[Mintberrycrunch]

Weird,Maybe a black walnut shell filled with lead?

See if u can zoom in under the loop the white parts look glossy and are flaking off. Would a nut or wood have a glossy exterior?

 

[Mintberrycrunch]

Did a quick test a 1/2 ounce lead fishing sinker rings in at 59/60 on the atp so if the metal is lead it would be safe to assume the other .29 ounce is the other material

 

[Mintberrycrunch]

If it was a meteorite stuck in something I bet it would be worth some big bucks let's hope

Not knowing the density, I'd say it's a Black Walnut if it's lightweight, or a meteorite that's been fractured on the back if it's heavy.

Bill

 

[relic lover]

I would say it's definitely black walnut or butternut. Check the top very carefully 4 holes maybe it's a salt shaker. The lead on the bottom looks like it has been moved around and put down many times look at all the marks

 

[Bruce R]

Somebody hollowed out a hazelnut and filled it with lead just for the hell of it, I used to do the same thing with English walnuts.

 

[Mintberrycrunch]

I would say it's definitely black walnut or butternut. Check the top very carefully 4 holes maybe it's a salt shaker. The lead on the bottom looks like it has been moved around and put down many times look at all the marks

No holes at all but a salt shaker would have been cool

 

[CoilyGirl]

Could it be the top of a cane?

 

[Tommy G]

Struck me as being a homemade cane knob, but don't see how it would have been fixed to the cane unless it was seated into something else that was then fastened to the cane. Just a SWAG. Cool find.

 

[Mintberrycrunch]

I would say it's definitely black walnut or butternut. Check the top very carefully 4 holes maybe it's a salt shaker. The lead on the bottom looks like it has been moved around and put down many times look at all the marks

after you suggested it might be filled with something I had to open it popped right off it definitely not a nut/shell

 

[DCMatt]

It is odd... But someone carved it like that. There seems to be no practical use for it. Purely decorative? Like the wooden fruit popular in the 60's...?

 

[relic lover]

Maybe it was a pawn in the world's coolest chess game