What is it?

[aaarchie]

Did a little beach detecting with my backup (a Radio Shack 3015 - a Bounty Hunter Land Star made for RS) last year at Key Biscayne, Fla. near and just below the old lighthouse. I wanted to keep the MXT away from the salt spray, and I think I did rather well with what some might call a junk detector. The wife thinks the 14K gold and ruby (5 small stones) ring that she now wears was a pretty nice find for a toy. Anyway, along with the ring and some other lessor treasures, I brought back lots of coated, corroded, and mostly impossible to distinguish stuff. I started cleaning some items yesterday with a sonic jewelry cleaner, and this popped out of one ball of crud an hour or so into the process.

It looks like something that might have been part of an important tool that the old timers might have carried around. OR just some misc junk. Any experienced guesses on what it might really be?

 

[adam in cal]

n/t

 

[kaptainkosmic]

n/t

 

[aaarchie]

Thanks. That was what I thought. No value Im sure, but I have gotten quite a bit of a value wondering what the barrel it was attached to might have pointed at, and wondering who might have been on the grip end of things.

I haven't finished with the cleaning, but there is a round (reasonably round) crude steel ball that has appeared from some real gnarly white crud plucked from the beach. Weighs about half a pound and appears to have a seam at the equator. Steel ballast weight, projectile, or something.

Guess it was worth dragging all of that crXp back home. Gotta love the detecting sport. Only wish I had regular access to a beach like so many of you. We don't even have swimming holes in this part on the southwest.

 

[KKinVA]

the guys over there are very good at ID'ing that kind of thing.
KKinVA