what the hell is this?
 

found this thing in a box of parts the other day that i recently aquired from somebody. Can't figure out what it is.



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I came for the title, staying for the answer.

+1

Cable guide?

WAG: Cable guide part off some brake lever, I think.

Is it big enough to open a beer with?

maybe one of those miniture beer bottles

It's Lee Marvin's prosthetic nose from Cat Ballou.
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who?

"If you was a man, I'd split you like a chicken..."

I will second Jeff Wills total WAG I see a couple of cable guides but my best WAG is this is not a bike. Looks decent silver almost never used in bikes so this one is a mystery.

How big is it? Hard to identify without scale.

Is it a casting, or made from sheet or strip?

...and yeah, how big?

I doubt it's for bikes.

Looks like one of those fancy napkin rings.

Please place it next to a banana for scale.

No.

it take two round things that are next to each other and puts them on top of each other and holds them. Do you have the other one?


kidding.

not sure, but it looks nicely made.

Klingon engagement ring.

need to see it next to a coin for scale

What are you from Canada or something? Lee Marvin was Clint's sometimes sidekick in the besketty westerns back in the '60s/70s. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001511/

I was thinking a Masonic ring.

I agree scale is needed as well as more info on where it was found. A box of stuff from an old bike shop? Did they sell/service Mopeds? I think it may be a clip to secure a cable of some kind, clutch or throttle probably, to its lever.

From Canada....could be part of a Snowmobile! From the wood grain, I am guessing about 3/4" long or 1.5cm or so, and it looks like some sort of cable connector thingie...Clutch, brake, throttle?!?

I think you're thinking of Lee Van Cleef. Marvin and Eastwood were only in one movie together AFAIK, and that was Paint Your Wagon.

That one is easy to forget.

Reminds me of le doohickey that le snaps onto the braze-on chainstay cable stop of my Motobecane.

It's obviously a thingmyjig.

This is the one I'm going with.

It most certainly ISN'T a Doohickey. It doesn't have a chicken on top.

No idea what it is, perhaps a cable guide as some have posited...

I'd be willing to bet that if you put it on eBay with verbiage something like "super rare, custom bicycle part made of Hiduminium (aluminum). You'll definitely never catch one of these around town" and then put a BIN price of $1,900 or something like that, you should be able to get a definitive answer on what it is andalso make some good money on the part.

Something that many here on this forum need to learn is that rarity does not equate to something being worth a 5h|tload of money. Rarity can actually serve to lessen the value of some items because nobody knows of them.

It's rare....you should ebay-it immediatley