🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Piece of swirl wire.

[edlynne]

Found in woods on both colonial and civil war site. There is a hole on each side. Thanks in advance.

 

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[KeyaPaha]

Late 1800s twisted barbless wire, for animals like horses, where barbed wire can damage the hides.

 

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[Blackfoot58]

Late 1800s twisted barbless wire, for animals like horses, where barbed wire can damage the hides.

Not with the small hole at each end. I’ve built a lot of fence. Never had a bucket of little short splices, just in case.

 

[Blackfoot58]

Antique lawn mower part?

Or the yippie ki yi ai part of a whimmy diddle 😀

 

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Found in woods on both colonial and civil war site. There is a hole on each side. Thanks in advance.

Looks like an old western union telegraph splice .

 

[edlynne]

Looks like an old western union telegraph splice .

Love to see a picture of another

 

[nagant]

Twist tie for a croaker sack.. Robert E Lee's swizzle stick

 

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Found in woods on both colonial and civil war site. There is a hole on each side. Thanks in advance.

 

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Love to see a picture of another

They don’t have the two holes though

 

[Retired Sarge]

Don't see it working as a gun cleaning tool. No way to attach it to the rod.

Ruled out part of a friction primer, as it appears to be too long.

The gun cleaning tool idea, made me wonder if it could be a pipe cleaning tool. Whether professionally made or field made. Seeing some are found on battle sites, and lots of soldiers smoked pipes in that time period.

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