Hollow Ball

[Adam_Hall]

What I believe to be a copper hollow ball with a whole as shown at the top, 5p alongside for size.

Amy Ideas?

[Dave8472]

Has it got a small thread in the hole, if so I have found one like that, still none the wiser what it is
Dave

[Yorkshire1964]

Crotal Bell ? a better picture would help

[andy65]

If it’s brass and has a thread in it it’s probably off an old brass bedstead.
We used to use them as catapult ammo; they made a great whistling sound as they went.

[Adam_Hall]

There is no thread, it is completley hollow and Iit looks nothing like a Crotal bell.

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[Oldest Swinger]

It is a Russian cold war weapon of assasination. You fill it up with radio active material stick it on the end of an umbrella and jab the person in the thigh whilts he waiting for a bus. Alternatively it couild be the little round knob of the sliding part of a gate bolt.

Back from sunny Brighton Paul

[grubster]

i found one almost the same and it had a rod of metal about 1 cm long sticking out of the hole held in by the mud aout 2mm wide

[Adam_Hall]

Alternatively it couild be the little round knob of the sliding part of a gate bolt

I would have thought that they wouldnt be hollow

[Oldest Swinger]

Alternatively it couild be the little round knob of the sliding part of a gate bolt

I would have thought that they wouldnt be hollow

Actually I have revised my identification, after a little research methinks a hollow die cast button of the 17th century. Check out the link and let me know what you think (they are at the boottom of the page).

http://silversimon.piczo.com/?g=39870591&cr=2

Paul

[Adam_Hall]

Actually I have revised my identification, after a little research methinks a hollow die cast button of the 17th century. Check out the link and let me know what you think (they are at the boottom of the page).

http://silversimon.piczo.com/?g=39870591&cr=2

Paul

Yeah, interesting page, ill have alook through that further. Cheers Paul

[grubster]

thank's oldest swinger exactly the same as mine in pic on you link but missing the actual ehe bit