Unique brass item..

[Melinda_Leo]

Found in AZ , first run out with the nox800, was is in wash doing washed away edges..

 

[laplander]

Possibly an old ornate Bell, very nice artifact!
HH Jeff

 

[Mark kus]

Possibly an old ornate Bell, very nice artifact!
HH Jeff

exactly what I thought Jeff
Mark

 

[Ronstar]

Cant quite see how much curvature but even maybe a door knocker?

 

[fwcrawford]

Interesting piece….

 

[Melinda_Leo]

Here is the back side. Appreciate the comments an feedback

 

[Picketwire]

When I was a kid in the 1950s, we had an upright lamp that's base looked similar. It was approximately 5 feet tall and had a push switch in the base. The base was a foot or a little bigger in diameter. To me, your find looks too thin to be a bell. There was also a base for the flag in a one room school near home that looks to be about the same diameter but was thicker than our lamp stand. Even if you never find out what it is, objects like this are fun to find and show how ornate old pieces can be. The cost to make similar items today would be prohibitive.

 

[Odanscoils]

When I was a kid in the 1950s, we had an upright lamp that's base looked similar. It was approximately 5 feet tall and had a push switch in the base. The base was a foot or a little bigger in diameter. To me, your find looks too thin to be a bell. There was also a base for the flag in a one room school near home that looks to be about the same diameter but was thicker than our lamp stand. Even if you never find out what it is, objects like this are fun to find and show how ornate old pieces can be. The cost to make similar items today would be prohibitive.

Yup
I'm thinking a lamp base as well.