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RelicRescuePNS

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• Mar 5, 2021

• #1

Solid brass and heavy, 1/4 inch threaded opening, found at the site of an 1800s school House. Wishing it was a toy cannon but thinking handle to a fireplace poker. Don’t know…

 

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bowwinkles

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• Mar 6, 2021

• #2

handle off fireplace tool.

 

Huckleberry

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• Mar 6, 2021

• #3

^^^^Yea, the threads are the giveaway. Fireplace tool handle.

 

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RelicRescuePNS

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• Mar 6, 2021

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Thanks, we thought so too…
I’ll just have to keep looking for that toy cannon!

 

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• Mar 8, 2021

• #5

Bore it out and put a flash hole in it and there ya go...

 

GLASSHOPPER1955

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• Mar 8, 2021

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HuntinDog said:

Bore it out and put a flash hole in it and there ya go...

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Yep. Make a great little black powder cannon for Fourth Of July.