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L shaped bronze object
« on: February 13, 2017, 03:14:12 am »
Hello to all, i have this unknown L shaped object that i have no idea about it is 7x4cm, and 132 grams, could fixed on a wall!!! with two nails!!!
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Re: L shaped bronze object
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2017, 06:53:10 am »
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Re: L shaped bronze object
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2017, 09:56:14 am »
Could it be a handle for a drawer or a cupboard?  ???

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Re: L shaped bronze object
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2017, 05:24:56 pm »
Or part of a hook-and-eye hanger? 

Strange piece.  So crude that it is hard to tell date, though the rivet heads (?) look old.

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Re: L shaped bronze object
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2017, 01:49:45 am »
Thanks Shawn and Alex, so it will remain unidentified object I suppose!!
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Re: L shaped bronze object
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2017, 03:52:00 pm »
How about a situla handle ring? At first glance it would seem like a bad design, but maybe it is bent to fit around the lip of the vessel.
http://www.antiques.com/classified/1112037/Antique-Roman-Bronze-Situla-with-Bail-Handle
http://risdmuseum.org/manual/168_kicking_the_bucket_in_ancient_etruria

Or, how about a torch holder?

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Re: L shaped bronze object
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2017, 11:47:40 pm »
Excellent ideas, thanks alot for them. and welcome to Forum EB
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Re: L shaped bronze object
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2017, 07:04:29 am »
where it was fixed it standed vertical 100%
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Re: L shaped bronze object
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2017, 08:14:28 pm »
Maybe one of a pair (or more) of handles....

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Re: L shaped bronze object
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2017, 03:45:37 pm »
That is a lug handle from and eighteenth or early nineteenth century brass bucket.  They were often used as trade items in North America and Africa and used also in Europe where they were manufactured.  This is probably of French manufacture.  These are often found in excavations of Indian and French colonial sites in the upper Midwest.

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Re: L shaped bronze object
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2017, 03:57:41 pm »
Thanks djmacdo, a handle of a bucket is most likely but otherwise i do not think i found it in Jerusalem!!!!
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Re: L shaped bronze object
« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2017, 09:47:14 pm »
It could have turned up in Jerusalem--these were generally used for cooking over a fire just about everywhere. 

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Re: L shaped bronze object
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2017, 02:48:59 am »
Thanks djmacdo, another mystery solved :)
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