What Is it? Help Please

[RichieRich]

Hi,
Does anyone know what this? Is there a better place to post this is? Thanks

 

[pjduff]

Try posting it in the "What Is It" forum, with a pic of both sides with something in the photos for size reference, you might have a better chance of getting it identified in that forum. Hope that helps some!!

What Is It?

 

[Terry Soloman]

Hi,
Does anyone know what this? Is there a better place to post this is? Thanks

From that shot it looks like a trigger housing with a fold down metal sight. Need pictures of the back - could be part of an old transom.

 

[RichieRich]

Transom? not sure what that means. Could you elaborate please.

 

[liftloop]

A surveyors tool that measure the difference in ground height
up is down on the stick
and down is up on the stick

 

[Forty-Niner]

The item is called a spring lancet and is of the Civil War era. It was a bloodletting device used by doctors of that era. The value would be $150-$250 based on the absence of the storage case.

 

[spartacus53]

It looks like a dollar bill, being held down by a paperweight, but I can be wrong

 

[TerryC]

I agree with Spart... I start the bidding at TEN CENTS... and I am being generous. TTC

 

[kuger]

The item is called a spring lancet and is of the Civil War era. It was a bloodletting device used by doctors of that era. The value would be $150-$250 based on the absence of the storage case.

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[Terry Soloman]

Fantastic ID Forty Niner Cival war spring lancet - Google Search

 

[Remus]

think liftloop meant 'transit' (transom is a window)but I think kuger is correct, my Dad had some blood letting instruments and I remember a similar piece... he collected Civil War memorabilia.[/I]

 

[kuger]

think liftloop meant 'transit' (transom is a window)but I think kuger is correct, my Dad had some blood letting instruments and I remember a similar piece... he collected Civil War memorabilia.[/I]

..That was all Forty-Niner I was just agreeing.Very nice piece,and very collectable

 

[RichieRich]

Thanks everyone, I decline the 10 cent bid however it did make me smile