Any help with this?

[ebone581]

Found in Virginia by a friend. Only info I have

 

[yandosan]

I am not afraid to call a spade a spade...

 

[The Rebel]

A hing of some sort?

 

[EmuDetector]

how small is that? if it's tiny, the only thing coming to mind is like an old cast iron table game or something. i feel like it's something i have seen on a restoration channel

 

[fleahillokie]

cast iron finial for a fence; maybe.
they were made in many different sizes

 

[Iggyks]

Today's whatsit was brought to you by the number 5...

 

[hoser]

Not a clue, but a very cool find indeed.

 

[Disoriented]

At first, I thought it may be the end of a beam type cotton scale, but I've never seen one like it. It appears that it was a pointer that could slide over a rod and be set to indicate a position, but I don't know the purpose nor the significance of the number 5.

 

[Sage]

Old visible gas pumps had numbers.

 

[mcdoogal]

an old flip over piece for a game scoring board?

 

[TexasLurker]

It looks like an old billiard scorekeeper that would hang on a cable over the table. You would slide the “beads” and the numbers, like above, to keep your score. However I can’t find one that uses a 5. It may be something like that though.