Old key with interesting design! Help with age and marks! Thanks!

[clutch33]

Dug this square key in Stoney creek Ontario Canada, what is it for and how old?!? Looks like the horn of plenty on one side!! Dug mid 1800's coins in area! Any ideas??

 

[Loco-Digger]

I believe it's not a key, but part of an old gas valve for gas lights or a heater.

 

[CTwoods]

I believe it's not a key, but part of an old gas valve for gas lights or a heater.

It sure is ......

Victorian era fancy homes had the really ornate designs

I just found a valve yesterday but did not post it. Now I have an excuse Look close as mine has 2 knobs like that

strange that my valve came from a poor folk site near a river, and the closest town that had gas, is 10 miles south.

I found a lot of oil lamp pieces, and a very early electric light socket,(so I guess I found a "Trifecta" of early home lighting lol) and this brass spigot for a wooden keg. Not sure if these were used to fill oil lamps? The small barrel band was there, but might be from a nail keg? or for that valve?

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

Also could be an antique clock key. Neat looking, for sure. Back in the day, they used to make a lot of things ornate.