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Sunlight 5 year s ago
#19.. Yes! but the rod sitting within it is the spindle for the cotton spool when installed in an upright position. It is also the typical British fireside "poker" that textile mill workers would take home when they became worn down a little more than was usable.
“Found in my aunts ‘treasure’ collection. Seems like a heavy metal weight inside.”
This is a hard resin ’tracker pebble’ used along this piece of coast to track longshore drift. The pebbles have a serial number, are buried in a location, and then refound further down the coast on pebble beaches by metal detectors.