Stumped

[Underground316]

happy Friday fellow diggers.any idea what this item i dug up about 6 or 7 inches is? Not sure how old it is either.is that handle on the side or something to a horse.i found half of a horseshoe pretty close.1900 era park

 

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[smokeythecat]

Front door to a cast iron pot belly stove. There was a sliding piece to cover the holes and the holes let the air in. I think.

 

[Underground316]

Oh yeah,I think your right.thats why it has the handle away from the heat.thanks for your input!!

 

[Underground316]

Any idea on date?

 

[smokeythecat]

Late 19th to mid 20th century. Sears and Wards even had them in their catalogs as late as (I think) about 1960.

 

[Sheperdess]

Please photograph the half of horseshoe you found as it may be an oxen shoe.

 

[Underground316]

here it is.i have I believe a lot older one i found on an old Indian camp as well

 

[pepperj]

Doesn't quite look like a half a horse shoe, or an oxen.

 

[Underground316]

What do think it could be?

 

[Underground316]

 

[Underground316]

Sorry about the paint on my hand lol thats what I do

 

[smokeythecat]

Not a horse or ox shoe. Perhaps part of a colonial period trammel. They used these things to hang pots over open hearths in houses. Not sure.

 

[Underground316]

I could see that.it seems kind of narrow for a horse but its bent though so not sure

 

[HuntinDog]

I'm not sure if these attachments will work and I don't know how to make them come up after the text.
So anyway I plucked the pics from the interweb of some along the same lines.....

I don't think the cast piece is from a stove. I'm thinking more along the lines of an inkwell.
It has four feet and there doesn't seem to be any way to attach it to a stove.
Just my WAG

HH

 

[Underground316]

Ya..I can see that.that would be a killer find.thanks for your help buddy!

 

[Gunrunner61]

Could your last piece
be one end of a forged drawing knife ? just a guess

 

[Underground316]

That's very possible..maybe there was a wood handle

 

[OverKill]

Not sure what it is, buy could possibly be a candle stand.