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[LdyBugz]

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@Happy2BHere wrote:

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@LdyBugz wrote:

Well, it's either a:

• "Shoudikeepit"  (Should I keep it?)

Or a:

• "Dewyneedit"  (Do we need it?)

Or lastly a:

• "Justincase"  (Throw it in the junk drawer for now, "Just In Case")

I hope someone can really identify this mystery object!  

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Hopefully some expert will get "Aroundtoit" (as in they'll get "Around To It" soon and will let us all know LOL) 

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LOL!!!  😂😀😉

[VanSleepy]

Might have been helpful if the person on Reddit said what the writing was.

[Venezia]

It looks like some kind of punch - look at the pointed end.  The number might indicate a size (of the hole it would make) or something like that.

Imagine it inverted.  The underside (of where the point is) looks flat and could be hit with a hammer.  The other end could be a handle.

[PhilaLady1]

I know little about Hertfordshire, but since you mentioned that this thingy was found in a Hertfordshire field, maybe it is an old rail road track part, like some kind of pin to secure a track.  Or was the place at one time agricultural? Maybe some farm equipment part?

If not, then I am leaning toward what others suggested, a whatchamacallit.  Or possibly fuhgeddaboudit.  😀 

[RedTop]

I think it looks like a punch tool that would have been used by someone crafting items from leather.  The flat end would have been the handle, the point would have made the holes, and the end we can't see would have been the end tapped by the hammer.  

The lifter tool for the covers on a wood cook stove are longer, and the end is flat to fit under the lip of the stove cover, and the cover over the water well.  The cast iron lifter to the cook stove in Moms basement is close to 10" long.   

The cast iron shaker to the grate on our old wood and coal furnace was 12-14" long to accommodate for shaking the grate with hands outside the burn zone.

I don't know anything about tools used by farriers in cleaning horses hooves and applying new shoes, but thought of that possibility too.

[NYCLatinaMe]

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@LTT1 wrote:

@skatting44 

I tried editing the photo but not much help. For some reason, I'm interpreting the imprint (eroded) as 1207? But that is just a guess really.

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Amazon, of course has them available for purchase.  

They are bone toys for dogs, set of 3 for $12.97, but they have a 10% off coupon. 

[Tinkrbl44]

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@LTT1 wrote:

@fthunt @DrakesMomma @Enufstuff @RoughDraft @Mersha 

First of all...this is not mine!

Second of all...it is a picture of "thing" posted on Reddit by somebody else and I GOT IN TROUBLE (banned for 7 days😮) for making a joke because I posted:

"It is a bone from one of those alien bodies found in the dry Peruvian desert".

''Reddit sub whatisthisthing"

I like everybody's guesses here! An answer has not been found by Reddit yet. 
I like the answer you gave @RoughDraft 

That it is a "stove/oven top lifter!"

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@LTT1 

Well, if anyone is watching The Curse of Oak Island they'd probably think it was another doo-dad they dug up and took to the local expert to identify.   

[Marp]

Someone posted on reddit that the only letters they could make out were PAT and it was suggested that meant patent.

There is a point on both sides.  Reddit has more than one photo of the item.

[aubnwa01]

It looks a bit like an old furnace key.  My grandma's house had an old gas floor furnace with no thermostat, it was either on at full blast or off & she turned it on by sticking a key looking thing into a place in the floor to turn the gas on.

[LTT1]

@Tinkrbl44 

Sounds like a fun show to watch!