Brass kid toe plate or shoe stretcher or ????

jeffre5659

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Found this at a 1880s farmhouse in Eastern Nebraska. This farm is still operating. It appear brass and is 2.5 inches long, 2.5 inches wide and curved 1.25 inches deep. It has no lettering of any type and has 4 studs on underneath. The stud at front is larger than other three. The farmer didn’t recognize the item when in showed it to him and it was about 9 inches down in an area where modern items since 60s was 3-4 inches down.

Any ideas what it is and how old?
 

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Puts me more in the mind of some type of machinery guard, like a belt or pully guard. Made to lift out of slotted keepers to change/adjust whatever it was "guarding".

Pure speculation on my part.

Why it's brass, hard to say.
 
Those rivets indicate it was attached to leather or wood or something
 
Could it be the brass equivalent of a "steel toe" from a boot? I've dug a steel toe before.
 
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