Hand forged iron bracket/hinge thang

When I grabbed this quickly at a sale I thought it was a strap hinge. I was in “grab what you can, as fast as you can mode” at the time. I now realize the hole at the small end isn’t oriented properly to be a typical door hinge. So I don’t actually know what it’s for. Nearly 22” long. More rod shaped than strap shaped anyways. Owner had things hundreds of years old and things thousands of years old. Typically I’d just think it’s early America at oldest but from this estate anything goes age wise. Any ideas?

 

Larger version of this?
https://www.kingmetals.com/ECItemMa...ICYEkbaup1WSRfqNBplnxCAEK04fjySIaApvSEALw_wcB

 

Deleted duplicate post.

 

Maybe a fireplace tool?

 

It does look like a support bracket of sorts to me. Maybe @the blacksmith can tell you what you actually have there

 

duped post...

 

Seems to be a tension* brace, but I can't say for what. There were probably at least one more, an' perhaps three...?
*as opposed to compression

 

a wrought iron railing , perhaps ?

 

What I was thinking too. It's a brace for something; the question is what.

 

I would think whatever it was made to support would be wooden; to be attached with screws, rather than rivets used for wrought iron. I would like to know the included angle between the arrow-end an' the single-hole tab end...the two ends seemingly aren't equally load-tasked, either due to the tab-end perhaps being hidden from casual view, or more likely its single screw being in 'shear', versus the 3-screws in the arrow-end being more in 'tension'. Without that angle, it's hard to make an accurate conjecture.

 

Could it be a skimmer of some sort?

 

Do you mean a kitchen tool? Or for concrete work?
I think not...bicbw.