🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Some sort of weight?

[Detector mom]

String still intact. Heavy.

 

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[Tony in SC]

Looks like it was broken then reused on a light switch pull string??

 

[releventchair]

A plummet perhaps.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Sash weight? Used in old time windows to counter balance the weight of the window when you open it. Or maybe a Lead Line weight,to determine water depth before the advent of depth finders?

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I was thinking window sash weight but all of the ones I have seen were a lot longer.

 

[DCMatt]

IMO it's way too small for a sash weight.

I think Tony is on the right track with a repaired light switch pull or maybe for window blinds.

 

[Older The Better]

Can’t be much help but the angled hole that comes through the bottom keeps catching my eye… it looks like it was meant to slide on another string… or have another sting pass through then tie off.

 

[CRUSADER]

IMO it's way too small for a sash weight.

Yes but it has a broken end & could have been much larger.

 

[Jeff H]

I have the same object but without the string. I don't think the end is broken.

 

[CRUSADER]

I have the same object but without the string. I don't think the end is broken.

Looks broken in the picture, hence the strange angle.

 

[DCMatt]

Does the angled hole go through to the hole at the broken end? Could it be a crude whistle?

 

[Gare]

I am leaning for a cord weight fr a light switch .

 

[Jeff H]

Cru the OP's does look a bit busted up but comparing it to mine I think hers is mostly whole. DCMatt, the hole does not go the length of the object. I do think it is a weight of some sort, but what sort I have no idea.

 

[alloy_II]

Old fashion window counter weight to assist lifting a window

Vintage Window Sash Hardware

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[Older The Better]

Sash weights are around a foot long a if it was one it would be useless being so small but it does resemble one.

There used to be a pile of sash weights in an old box car. they made good boat anchors for a farm pond.

 

[CRUSADER]

Cru the OP's does look a bit busted up but comparing it to mine I think hers is mostly whole. DCMatt, the hole does not go the length of the object. I do think it is a weight of some sort, but what sort I have no idea.

Interesting, yours has a similar end angle, so maybe the OPs is just roughed up a bit & it is complete!
I don't know what it was a counter-weight for, but that is what it seems like (too small for a window) & I don't know why it has a side-ways hole.

 

[DCMatt]

Clock weight?
This one is 18th C.

Note the use of string rather than chain...

 

[CRUSADER]

Clock weight?
This one is 18th C.

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Note the use of string rather than chain...

Seems the best idea so far....

 

[Retired Sarge]

Homemade toilet pull chain handle or whatever they were called.......?

 

[BennyV]

Looks very crude. I believe the colonials and Indians sometimes used stones & weights to hold down the bottom of fishing nets that they stretched across rivers, streams, etc. Just a guess. Was it found near water?