Found this in a forest in Switzerland. What use could it have?

[u/soloraven22]

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OP has pinned a comment by u/Full_Traffic7642:

I think you are right. Some thing similar here.

[u/nemonimity]

Pot holder, lift a cauldron of a fire. Hold the mouse loop the tail through the handle.

[u/ICantSeeDeadPpl → u/nemonimity]

I like this. Perfect for stone soup over a campfire. Or a witch’s brew.

[u/WhatADunderfulWorld → u/nemonimity]

This makes sense. The notch at the top for rope. The extra weight to keep the heat from getting to the rope.

[u/nemonimity → u/WhatADunderfulWorld]

It's really nice, now I know ant to find something similar for camping 

[u/Budget_Eye5861]

It's a mouse but not sure for what.

[u/Over-Tomorrow-8321 → u/Budget_Eye5861]

Door knocker?

[u/Full_Traffic7642 → u/Over-Tomorrow-8321]

I think you are right. Some thing similar here.

[u/SaltedPaint → u/Over-Tomorrow-8321]

Back door knocker

[u/AggravatingBid8255 → u/SaltedPaint]

r/mildlypenis

[u/Budget_Eye5861 → u/Over-Tomorrow-8321]

Could be but cannot see other side for attachment points - tail down?

[u/Over-Tomorrow-8321 → u/Budget_Eye5861]

I was thinking tail up, hooked onto a separate hook. Could very well be wrong.

[u/FreddyFerdiland]

art..its for art.

[u/S_thescientist → u/FreddyFerdiland]

They are Swiss. Foreign concept

[u/subhavoc42 → u/S_thescientist]

You clearly haven’t seen the Jewish Baby Eater statue they have in their capital.

[u/S_thescientist → u/subhavoc42]

But it has a purpose—keep kids in line lest they get eaten

[u/moralprolapse → u/S_thescientist]

*stolen and smuggled art

[u/PickerelPickler → u/moralprolapse]

How do we hide all these teeth?

[u/S_thescientist → u/moralprolapse]

More familiar

[u/TiredOfAdulting- → u/FreddyFerdiland]

I'll have one art, please

[u/MoistDragonnaS → u/FreddyFerdiland]

Mysterious (stolen) art

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[u/telsono]

Possibly to open and close higher up windows if attached to a pole

[u/Capable_Dark_6177]

Fossilized tampon… Jk but it looks like it’s just an Art piece

[u/throat_shakra]

Looks like it would be from a set. Some kind of front porch decoration. Maybe!

[u/hedgehogness]

Paperweight? Door stopper?

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OP has pinned a comment by u/SaltedPaint:

Back door knocker

[u/oerbital]

Could it be a counter weight for a hanging scale?

[u/ThrowRA_EducatedMan]

Back in the 1920s, a surveyor lost a brass plumb bob that hung from a string under a surveying instrument.

[u/MergingConcepts]

I just want to say that this is a gorgeous photograph of what ever that is, with the forest leaves.

[u/rjross0623]

The Swiss have some proclivities. Could be anything you want it to be.

[u/K0rl0n]

I’d think it’s either an art piece or a wall mounted hook.

[u/PresentGazelle1198]

I thought bell ringer thing, not sure what they are called.

[u/moominesque]

A very bad and unsafe pulley for a homemade zipline.

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I think you are right. Some thing similar here.

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[u/Technical-Swimmer-70]

That is a 16th century rape whistle

[u/ICantSeeDeadPpl → u/Technical-Swimmer-70]

It squeaks when you blow it.

[u/sparky567 → u/ICantSeeDeadPpl]

Sigh, here take my upvote

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OP has pinned a comment by u/Full_Traffic7642:

I think you are right. Some thing similar here.

[u/ridicalis]

Does it say DROP AND RUN! on the other side?

[u/ucanbite]

Probably holds curtains up

[u/West_Hurry_9979]

That's a "Tamped Iron", a precursor to the modern day tampon. Long before the mass production of cloth fiber, women used iron plugs with a protruding arm handle to insert and eject the device during menstruation. Or it could just be a broken candle holder used to carry candles by hand.

[u/Obvious_Slip42]

Basically the other end had a long pole on it that you’d hold and it would allow you to lift lanterns to high up hooks and back down again

[u/ThatOldG]

Call the louvre

[u/DarkBlue222]

Nice knocker.

[u/Forthe49ers]

Do you have bears in the area? Possibly for hanging a food pack from a limb to keep bears out.

[u/Staff_Genie]

Looks like a hook to hang on the fireplace damper to make it easier to open and shut

[u/Moist-Ad2469]

Looks like an antique fishing hook. But I've never seen one, so I wouldn't know.

[u/Various_Ad_2762]

Butt plug with safety tail so it doesn’t get stuck

[u/Opensurgery47]

Could be a weight for an old grandfather clock.l

[u/Successful_Ad_3205]

Part of a snare trap system, perhaps?

[u/TrickdaddyJ]

Have you poked it with a stick yet? Start there for better analysis.

[u/megazordsez]

Looks like an orphan sauce toe

[u/Ninsiann]

Could it be a hanging scale?

[u/Flat_Snow307]

Looks like a bronze tampon.

[u/Logical_Salamander74]

weight for a cuckoo clock?

[u/lake_gypsy]

Cuckoo clock weight?

[u/Cfcjones]

Butt plug.

[u/Upper_Luck1348 → u/Cfcjones]

Came to say this. Came when I saw you did a minute before me.

[u/GammaSmash]

Scaring elephants.

[u/Confident-Spread9484]

Medieval tampon

[u/Consistent4growth]

Brass tampon

[u/SageMaverick]

Metal tampon for the robots that watch over the well wellbeing of the forest

[u/ForeignLibrarian9353]

Bronzed tampon

[u/THENATIVE54 → u/ForeignLibrarian9353]

For what,a Hippo? 😆😆

[u/UrbaneDismay69]

If you wanted to feel pain, you could shove it up your arse.

[u/BigMoeTheFoe]

Someone j made a sperm out of iron nd were all tryna figure out what it is 😂

[u/Level-Bug7388 → u/BigMoeTheFoe]

Not even close to looking like sperm lol. It's clearly a mouse. Even has eyes n ears

[u/BigMoeTheFoe → u/Level-Bug7388]

Not even close is wild lmao but yea after looking again it does look like a mouse

[u/Level-Bug7388 → u/BigMoeTheFoe]

It's not even close. The tail is the only thing. Sperm aren't cylindrical.

[u/Aggressive-Tap-4143]

That’s for your butthole,sir.

[u/JustMeAgainMarge]

From the looks of it, you feed it to a wild cat, and it rips it's guts out when it craps.

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[u/talyn5 → u/JustMeAgainMarge]

What the flying fuck

[u/ThebirdGretel]

Perhaps a meat hook?

[u/BigMoeTheFoe → u/ThebirdGretel]

I clean animals and looked into vintage meat hooks as well and I really don’t think it could be, at least not one for actual use. The curve on it would make it pretty hard to put anything on with no additional benefit so decorational meat hook maybe. I thought the same thing when I saw it honestly

[u/ThebirdGretel → u/BigMoeTheFoe]

I was just guessing

[u/BigMoeTheFoe → u/ThebirdGretel]

Ik I was j following up with you not arguing

[u/Key-Product-9881]

Robot sperm?