Guess what this is a photo of!

[Uncle Bob]

It's fireworks....a fire cracker...a bomb you shoot up in the air...

 

[YT2095]

the spherical part is 1.5 inch dia.

nope it`s not an African instrument.

 

[YT2095]

I think I`ll give it to you Robert, it is indeed a Firework, it`s a 1 1/2 inch mortar launched shell, a multi-color burst

you`re up

 

[pacanis]

Well it doesn't look like that anymore....

 

[pacanis]

Ahhhh, from the other night?

 

[YT2095]

it`s one I had left over from the other night yeah

 

[Uncle Bob]

Let me find something......Back in a few

 

[Uncle Bob]

Say the Magic Word and you are the Winner....

 

[YT2095]

do you hang a Pot off it?
(for cooking)

 

[Uncle Bob]

No pots...Not for Cooking

 

[pacanis]

Part of a weathervane?

 

[Uncle Bob]

Not part of a weathervane...

 

[YT2095]

it Looks like something goes through the brass end, and the "Hook" part when you pull on the "stem" would bend it.
is it for Pipe work maybe?
or some kind of ratchet?

 

[Uncle Bob]

Not for pipe work....Does not bend anything....Not a ratchet...

 

[YT2095]

maybe a big old Clock pendulum ?

 

[Uncle Bob]

Nope...not a pendulum....Nothing to do with clocks

 

[buckytom]

is it a key of sorts?

 

[Uncle Bob]

In that a key opens things....Yes

 

[buckytom]

which end is inserted to open something?

 

[Uncle Bob]

The business end...... The end with the hook looking thing would be the end used.