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[Anonymous]

Hello, I found this while diggin' around an old farm (75 years or older), and I have no idea what it is, or what it was used for. I think it is copper or brass. If anyone has any idea as to what it is, please share. Thanks.

 

[Anonymous]

Looks maybe, to be the top of a lightning rod. Dale

 

[Anonymous]

Didn't they use things like that for placing flowers at a grave? Just a guess, so I could be wrong...
The Lightning Rod idea may be right on too. Way back when, aluminum was rare and expensive. Too bad they eventually found a way to make aluminum cheap (pop cans and pull tabs, etc...).

 

[Anonymous]

Actually in the early days lightning rods were made of platinum as at that time platinum was virtually worthless. They also used it to make dentures.
Bill

 

[Anonymous]

Could be a scabbard for some tool or a tool for punching holes in the ground to drop seeds in.
Bill

 

[Anonymous]

Too bad I don't have a stash of old lightning rods to look through! <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> Or dentures...
Thanks for sharing,
HH - Rhoderman

 

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Tobacco Spud?...

 

[Anonymous]

This is what I found for 'Tobacco Spud', does it sound like it could apply to the object found? Thanks.
"Bolden described going through the field stalk by stalk, one person cutting with a tobacco knife the shape of a quarter moon and others coming along behind, picking up the stalks and pushing them down over the tobacco stick. To pierce through the tobacco stalks, a