A questioner said:
Found this piece in rubbles of an old house. It’s made of glass and fairly heavy. Bottom flat. Top made of metal with a square hole! What is it?
Some of the answers here:
- some kind of door handle?
- Though the same, just the bottom part that would be most visible as a knob is sanded flat, matte and ugly. So maybe there’s something missing…
- It just looks broken or rubbed off. It’s definitely a door knob. We used to have the clear ones in my old house.
- Must be a door knob- the square hole is exactly right.
- I think so too. But why the glass is so flat, matte and ugly where it should be most beautiful. Was there something attached, liked glue metal decorative cap hmmm.
- Yes, exactly. It’s a doorknob that used to have an onlay that is missing.
- Nobody mentions the chicken pic.
- Almost looks like the end of a curtain rod
- Or bed knob?, safe to say, it’s a knob.
- My thoughts exactly the butt end looks too unfinished for a doorknob & its on the small side
- Door knob with some decorations that went missing.
- Absolutely a doorknob. A square spindle goes in the opening and a small screw in the hole holds the spindle in place. The spindle goes through the door mechanism and turns the latch.
- Door knob, hole for bar to connect through to other one?
- It could be an ornate table foot. I’ve seen similar ones that look like an eagles foot holding a glass ball.
- Is it possibly an ink well. I know it looks like a knob, but why would they glue something on the end? I’ve seen a lot of antique knobs, hell, I’m antique, but I have never seen one glued. But I could be wrong, just throwing out another possibility.
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