cast iron whatsit?,wall hanger for?

3.5" wide flat/rounded part,6" long flat topped hook for your hat???
two screw holes for wall mount?
unmarked

 

For hanging hat on top and coat from the lower part. Could be attached to the wall or with others in a line along a rectangular piece of wood (which was in turn attached to the wall.)

 

There's a Welsh saying describing surprise, "his eyes were standing out like chapel hat pegs"

That's a chapel hatpeg.

Fancy cast iron not likely to be much later than 1900.

 

Churches dob't have them.

 

AKA: coat hook

 

interesting Google search for chapel hatpeg....
couldn't fine anything similar..
thanks again!!

 

I'm told by an inhouse Welsh/Yorkshire cross breed that Chapel hatpegs is a Yorkshire saying, not a welsh one. Like "I could eat a pickled shire horse."