Id of object guesses?

[cyberdigger]

No worries, Jim!! At least you weren't thinking what I was thinking: shackles! []

 

[botlguy]

Te He Te He ! ! ! First time this year I have been right, if in fact I am. It is just a guess but seems plausible, I would use it so if I had a bunch of them. And afterall, we were asked to guess according to the RE:

Whatever it is, I think it's a neat object, I really enjoy and have a lot of similar stuff in my accumulations

 

[beendiggin]

I've only seen them used to hold old fashioned metal downspouts against buildings. Pound the spike into the wall, then it opens up at the hinge. Insert downspout, close it back shut, then wrap wire around the lugs.

 

[Inkspot]

beendiggin is correct. It is a gutter down spout bracket.

 

[botlguy]

ORIGINAL: beendiggin

I've only seen them used to hold old fashioned metal downspouts against buildings. Pound the spike into the wall, then it opens up at the hinge. Insert downspout, close it back shut, then wrap wire around the lugs.

I wouldn't want anyone pounding that thing into the side of MY house. Wood siding would split BIG TIME.
I'm not saying it WASN'T used that way but that doesn't seem plausible to me.

 

[cyberdigger]

It probably had a pointed end, it was a few inches longer than it is now.. rest is stuck in wood..?

 

[RED Matthews]

That's why I figured it was for an earlier home construction. RED Matthews

 

[Dabeel]

Nice replies all!

I thought I might get one or two replies in a couple of days.
That's one of the things that I love about this forum, just throw something out there and Wham! there's your help.

Thanks guys,
Doug

 

[Plumbata]

Yup, gutter downspout holdermabob. Those things are generally used in brick or stone structures and would have been mortared into the wall as the wall was being constructed. Similar, though smaller things were often used to anchor a lightning rod wire along the side of brick/stone buildings, often made of brass.

 

[botlguy]

ORIGINAL: Plumbata

Yup, gutter downspout holdermabob. Those things are generally used in brick or stone structures and would have been mortared into the wall as the wall was being constructed. Similar, though smaller things were often used to anchor a lightning rod wire along the side of brick/stone buildings, often made of brass.

Now THAT makes a LOT of sense.