wHAT COULD THIS BE?

[jt70]

I found this next to a driveway that has been in use for 250 years or so. It is silver plated and the hole is about 1 1/2" in diameter??

any ideas?

JT

 

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[weldermark]

looks like the carrying ring on an old time relish tray


Mark

 

[bk]

Top to a lamp shade?

 

[mojjax]

Maybe part of a hitching post for a horse .

 

[psgen]

top of a lamp shade / handle of a serves set

 

[jt70]

It ws found Not far from a place that was once a stable and carriage house so i vote for the hitching post. but it really could be any of the things you all have suggested. thanks for the ideas. any more?

JT

 

[root]

Looks like a phineal to moi........

 

[JasonL2972]

Do the threads looks clean cut as if done by a machine or rough as if made by hand.With its flat screw end i'd say it connected to something else metal rather then wood.It may not be all to old.

 

[nhbenz]

Well, I thought of a hitching post briefly, but it's really nowhere as sturdy as it would need to be. If the hole is only an inch and a half, then the shank wouldn't be able to hold a horse (dang strong animals) and they would have used a lag-bolt type thread rather than a machine thread. I think its more likely some inside-use type application. Just my two cents. -Ben

 

[deacon]

rings that would be mounted on the hitching bar of a multi-horse rig, that the riegns would go through to keep them from getting tangled.

 

[Monty]

I think they are part of an old carriage and ropes or reigns passed through the loop, wearing it on the inside?

 

[dano91]

Wiffle stop

 

[jt70]

What is a wiffle stop?

Anything like a left handed squeegie for a mustard mill?

but seriously....never heard of that. any info?

JT

 

[psgen]

Whiffle stop............... Part of a whiffletree........................part of a harness riggin.....................here is a webpage which hopefully can explain it better..? http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/tekpages/whippletree.html

Whiffle-tree: A bar to which the traces of an animal's harness are connected, and whereby the vehicle is drawn. A whiffle. The terms single, double, and treble tree are more convenient, and expressive of their capacity. See SINGLE-TREE; DOUBLE-TREE; TREBLE-TREE.

Single-tree: A bar secured by its center to the cross-bar of the thills or shafts, and to whose end the traces are attached. The single-trees are connected to the ends of the double-tree when the horses are hitched in pairs. A whiffle-tree.

Single-tree Hook: A hook the end of each arm of the single-tree, to which the traces are attached.

I believe some people refer to these hooks as Whiffle Stops............................

 

[poptopking]

Here are two more to compare yours to. Down south we call them reigns rings. The one on the left came from a slave house that was occupied by the yanks, and the brass one on the right came from a camp site that was used by both sides durring the war.

 

[yurt_boy]

Another stab in the dark here, but it looks to me like what would be bolted at the bottom of a saloon bar every so many feet. A brass pipe would then be threaded down through them for patrons to put their feet up on. To me, your photo shows the "hoop" part as somewhat flat on the inside, supporting my theory. If it were made for reigns, etc., it should be rounded, to avoid excessive rubbing.

 

[MiddenMonster]

Another stab in the dark here, but it looks to me like what would be bolted at the bottom of a saloon bar every so many feet. A brass pipe would then be threaded down through them for patrons to put their feet up on. To me, your photo shows the "hoop" part as somewhat flat on the inside, supporting my theory. If it were made for reigns, etc., it should be rounded, to avoid excessive rubbing.

Concept-wise, the bar theory makes sense, but from a labor perspective it doesn't. For use on a bar, the builder would have had to drill and insert the threaded female parts into the bar wood, and keep it at level while doing so. I would think the railing for a bar would have been installed by inserting the rail through the loops, spacing the loops, leveling it and then fastening it to the bar with wood screws through the loop bracket. Construction generally uses the simplist approach.

 

[JakePhelps]

I found something almost exactly the same, the area dated back to the 1700's and was used for horses and cairages

 

[peterh]

I believe it is part of a carriage horses harness, it sat on the "saddle" (not a riding saddle but part of the harness which sat on the horses back) the reins were fed through it back to the driver. I have a similar one in Australia.

Cheers