Featured A quick question....

How hard would it be to get a guesstimate on the age of a plan iron(?) Ice pick.

 

Unless there's something unusual about the handle, I doubt there's much chance.

 

but one never knows....do one ?
we live & die here by photographs...............just sayin !

 

Okay I have to download an app to downsize my picture....I am not even sure if it is an ice pick.

 

Ahh...that's better......
while it may pick ice....I believe it's something else...like a spike or tent peg...

 

Looks like it was a ground down EYE BOLT to that point.

 

You can see where the eye was shaped.

 

It had been used for who knows how many years as a peg for the drive wheel of a spinning wheel.

 

Does this help any?

 

Gulp.......ya...size matters !!

 

So what ya think?

 

There is no way (reasonable way) of knowing for sure but from my research on wrought iron and metal detecting I'd say it's from the very early 1900s. Part of the reason I would guess that has to do with the patina and amount of corrosion. That's what I'd say but it doesn't mean much.

 

Perhaps used as a Marlinespike.

 

You can see where it was worked. Well what I think are the marks where they worked to firm it.
I do know that the style of wheels was most likely made early to mid 1800's. No telling how long she was used.
With that being said I wouldn't be surprised if what ever it is could be from sometime in the 1800's
It would have been kept oiled. You can see where there is a bit of shine to it. That is from being through the upright.

 

Okay, now what is that? Educate me, please.

 

I was thinking something like a tent peg, too:

from:
http://www.canopiesandtarps.com/mtn...LgnYvEhVQWYTQJGamks8SO7FMqPHMbdMaAkaIEALw_wcB

Older, perhaps, but still, something similar(?)

 

With pleasure Bobbie Joe.
It is usually polished intentionally or simply in use on boats and ships mainly to weave loops into rope ends to connect it to something without counting on knots.
It is also used for making 'monkey fists'. These are weighted ends on small rope and used to heave that rope to shore or shore to vessel.
Then, once this is captured larger and larger rope (hawsers)
can be pulled until the necessary size is achieved to hold the vessel in place.
It is also used to make and undo knots.
(No I did not copy and paste this)