Okay PPOT Brain Trust. Can you ID this?
 

A friend found it while packing to move.

What say you?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1588645819.jpg

I can say that it seems nautical. I happen to own a sailboat and have absolutely zero idea what that is!

Curious!

Maybe part of a model boat, or something that goes in a aquarium as a decoration or weight to keep plants from floating.

Interesting - I have zero idea what that is.

Best guess: It may be a way to throw a safety line to another ship. You attached a rope and then swing the weight over your head and throw it. The hook is so it can be quickly secure it at the other end.

Less likely: A weight and hook for a rope... Used to check the speed of a sailing ship.
You hang a sea anchor (canvas bag) on the hook and then throw it in the water and as the rope reals out you count the knots.

Here is a plausible guess

1) a sounding weight. Back in the old days, you had a weight on a line and dropped it overboard to measure depth so you didn't run aground. This is the weight.
2) the hook is to multi-task. It is to retrieve a line or other thing in the water. So that one tool does two jobs.

Best guess. And it's still not quite perfect. I just BS well.

window sash weight

maybe a boat or waterfront home


a sounding weight has a hole in the bottom not a hook

Block pulley weight or hook for tie off.

It looks like a memento someone fastened together to keep the nautical charm in place. I don’t think the two objects are related other than the lead hook was handy to hang the navy emblem where it could be seen or kept safe. Could the naval charm be part of someone’s Navy uniform and the owner used the lead weight to hang it in a shop or something like that?

^^^ This

As we've guessed. The two items aren't really related other than being hooked together.

They've come to the conclusion that the 'Hook' is actually the clapper to an old cast iron bell...

The figure on the bottom of the photo is a "fouled anchor".

I have a rich history with Navy Chiefs (two Great Uncles in WWII) but the telling of the fouled anchor is best left to those that earned it.

Those two things, as interesting as they are, have no connection, purpose as a tool, as far as I can tell....I am an idiot!

Good call.

http://www.skipjackmarinegallery.com...engths-reg.jpg

The cable with fouled anchor is just the handle used to ring the bell. I suspect they are only connected in that the bell was probably a ships bell, so there was probably a nautical theme.

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/252222...-1/s-l1000.jpg

https://www.chairish.com/product/1295248/1970s-nautical-cast-iron-anchor-bell
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1588706520.jpg

There's nothing that PPOT can't solve.
Now if we could just get the point where we didn't have to keep solving the same thing over and over .... ;)

Damn! That's impressive, Sammy!

I just followed the lead of others.