🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Strange Brass Piece

[oldmxrat]

I found this brass thing at an old town dumpsite yesterday. It has two opposing ends of different sizes with concave faces and a center hole on each that goes in about 1/2 inch. The 'handle' end looks like it was swaged into a hole as a rivet would be. Also, there's no hole in the long part.

Any ideas?

 

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[GDub62]

I found this brass thing at an old town dumpsite yesterday. It has two opposing ends of different sizes with concave faces and a center hole on each that goes in about 1/2 inch. The 'handle' end looks like it was swaged into a hole as a rivet would be.

Any ideas?

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Looks like some kind of fancy plumbing fixture to me

 

[villagenut]

Looks like what i once a long long time ago called a one hitter...no not baseball.

 

[DCMatt]

Tobacco pipe tamper?

 

[hollARDog]

I was thinking remains of fancy ball starter🤔
Part of

 

[Gare]

Here is a WILD idea but could it be some type of fancy cigarette holder ?

 

[oldmxrat]

I was thinking remains of fancy ball starter🤔
Part of

That's what I'm thinking.

 

[oldmxrat]

Here is a WILD idea but could it be some type of fancy cigarette holder ?

None of the holes go through, they're all blind.

 

[Gare]

WEll that lets my thoughts out lol good luck

 

[Tony in SC]

Gas light burner.

 

[creskol]

Hash pipe?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Here we have another blazing-bright example of why folks really ought to spend the two minutes it takes to read through the previous replies before they post their guess about the object's ID.

This object's finder, Oldmxrat, said in Reply #8 above:
> None of the holes go through, they're all blind.

 

[hollARDog]

They just a "pipe" dream😉

 

[Goldfinger450]

That flared side is where on say a Bathroom fawcet the Porceline white handle would screw on.

 

[oldmxrat]

That flared side is where on say a Bathroom fawcet the Porceline white handle would screw on.

Also, the holes are not threaded.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Whatever it is, it sure is purdy.

It certainly wasn't made as a simple utilitarian piece of brass, this was decoratively cast and was meant to be seen. It's one of those relics that you look at and recognize, but just can't remember where you've seen it. Possibly from a brass wall bracket to a Victorian Period oil lamp or a piano candle holder.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Piano Tuning Hammer

These tools were typically provided with the instruments at purchase. Tuning hammers are the tool that piano technicians pick up the most often; it is used for tuning, stringing, and in voicing the piano. Early tuning tools were in the form of a “T”, with a striker on one or both ends of the handle, for the purpose of driving the tuning pins into the pinblock, done in the process of string replacement.

 

[hollARDog]

For the Win☝️

 

[dozer dan]

Towel or tie rack part.

 

[oldmxrat]

Piano Tuning Hammer

These tools were typically provided with the instruments at purchase. Tuning hammers are the tool that piano technicians pick up the most often; it is used for tuning, stringing, and in voicing the piano. Early tuning tools were in the form of a “T”, with a striker on one or both ends of the handle, for the purpose of driving the tuning pins into the pinblock, done in the process of string replacement.

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That's the closest "looking" idea yet, but I don't think any hammer would have concave faces.