What is it????

[abunaitoo]

Went to the swap meet today.
Found this interesting item on a tool table.

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[mulespurs]

I think its a cookstove lid lifter

[Oaks&Pines]

Handle for a file, missing the clamp part.

[Mk42gunner]

I don't know what it is for sure, but I do think it is missing some parts.

It doesn't look like any stove lid lifter I ever saw.

Robert

[CastingFool]

Handle for a file, missing the clamp part.

I think it's a file handle, too. I recalling something similar in an old chainsaw sharpening kit

[abunaitoo]

I'm sure it's missing something.
Probably a clamp or something.
It just looked so interesting and old.

[Winger Ed.]

It is a file handle missing the clamp.

Do a quickie search for 'antique file handle', go to 'images', and several pictures of them pop right up.

[gwpercle]

My standard Wild Guess when looking at a whatizit is Suppository Mould...

... But this can't be a suppository mould , not enough cavities !
Gary

[abunaitoo]

Now all I have to do is find a clamp for it.
Maybe make one.
Great, another project on the long, long, long list.

[Winger Ed.]

From looking at the pictures of them, the clamp doesn't look like much more than a ring with a threaded hole for a set screw.

[abunaitoo]

I was thinking of bending a flat stock with three sides, and weld a nut covering the forth side.

[facetious]

Could it be a handle for another tool ?

[bedbugbilly]

My hen's nest is missing its handle . . . . at least now I know where it ended up . . . . dog-gone racoons!

[GONRA]

GONRA thinks maybe a small hose clamp is needed here? ??

[hiram]

file handle with the file and half the clamp missing.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1013909670/antique-sterling-silver-handle-nail-file?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_-bath_and_beauty-domestic_high&utm_custom1=_k_c9c5fa3eb2b017c650979ed7d5a773d9_k_&utm_content=bing_412372815_1296324507027233_810203 45410470_pla-4584619897188467:pla-4584619897188467_c__1013909670&utm_custom2=412372815&msclkid=c9c5fa3eb2b017c650979ed7d5a773d9

[tunnug]

I think its a cookstove lid lifter
I second this, woodstove lid handle, on second thought it doesn't have the S shape, so yeah, I looked it up, file holder.

[beemer]

It is a file handle missing the clamp, not a guess as I have one.

[trebor44]

File handle, NOT a ring lifter for a wood cookstove (or any cookstove). It is missing the 'clamp' part but one could be 'fashioned' as described. These are still available new, if you care to search.

[gunther]

Second om Beemer's observation; Gonra has it right, too. A heater hose clamp should be small enough to do the job.