✅ SOLVED W. W. Waddell / 1855

[dugit]

I found this brass thing yesterday in Natchez Mississippi and i don't have a clue what it is. On one side it is stamped improved 1855 and on the other it is stamped W. W Waddell. I also found the round brass thing with an eyelet and don't have a clue about it also. Any help would be appreciated , thanks in advance.

Dugit

 

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[Ism]

I could be way wrong, but my first thought is a surgeons bullet probe. There are some similar devices in google images, but I didn't see any like your's in a quick search.

 

[hunting deer]

Looks like someone found one in a treasurenet post dated feb 4 2012.

 

[Mackaydon]

Threads at the bottom end suggest it's only part of something else. (Can I get a 'duh'?)
Don....

 

[hunting deer]

And your point is?

 

[Bramblefind]

It may be a lightning rod. I found this ad - from The Southern Business Directory and General Commercial Advertiser, Volume 1 (1854) in Google Books.

Also a photo of what is thought to be Ben Franklin's lightning rod.

Ben Franklin's Lightning Rod at The Franklin Institute

 

[Mackaydon]

BINGO, Bramblefind
Great ID !!
Don.....

 

[dugit]

That's it , thanks

Dugit

 

[LaGold]

Cool it's nice to finally know what that was. I was wondering if you had figured it out. Pretty cool find. I never would have thought it was an old lightning rod.

signals diggem all... LaGold