This has old/electric written all over it

Country Dirt Kid · Feb 14, 2017

I found this detecting a soybean field at night. The sky was clear, stars amazing and there were raccoons fighting pretty close to me. Some kind of animal was running back and forth in the brush just outside the reach of my mini hat lamp. The ground is thawed and the air was cool with a good crisp feel. I was very happy.

any ideas what this is

GLASSHOPPER1955 · Feb 14, 2017

Ceramic bottle stopper. This one is on an 1890s beer bottle. The modern Grolsh beer bottles still use a variation of it. These originally had a rubber ring seal where the grooved part is.

Country Dirt Kid · Feb 14, 2017

Nice ID. I was fooled, I thought it was some kind of insulator

thanks

matmit · Feb 15, 2017

Considering it is ceramic and the same overall shape as the old "knob and tube" insulators, you were not too far off.
The main difference is that the electrical insulators usually had a nail in them for fastening to studs :yes:

cellrdwellr · Feb 15, 2017

That's a toke stone :yes:

nice find! Love the ones with the local names on em. This photo is for educational purposes only! That is definitely not me in the photo :laughing:

Ricki7 · Feb 15, 2017

That was a quick I'd Glasshopper ! HH

Digger-Dave · Feb 16, 2017

cellrdwellr said:
That's a toke stone nice find! Love the ones with the local names on em. This photo is for educational purposes only! That is definitely not me in the photo

Yeah right!

I saw what was in your recycling bin last week!

You just aren't the best hand model!

This has old/electric written all over it

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