I wonder if they are not early guide hooks for electrical wires or maybe even telegraph or telephone wires. Early telephone wires might make sense because in the system back then had separate wires specific for each house or party line(which would have multiple houses on it) they eventually switched to some sort of modulating system so they could use the same wires for transmitting multiple houses phones. I think that would also explain why ten might seem reversed? Maybe it was mounted on the opposite side of the pole or? This is just an educated guess, based on the fact that they look like wire guide hooks and are porcelain and so much of the stuff on telephone poles are porcelain or glass.
They almost look like some sort of rocker switches to the right of the numbers? Like the hook part is part of a mechanism, with the numbers just to assist with assembly of something? Like this maybe?
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10 would be upside down.
Those sure look a lot like ceramic guide hooks used in the textile industry! Google Cerok ceramic guide hook for some examples of modern equivalents.
I was curious. It does kind of look like the second row item in this pic.
They look like some sort of electrical insulators, like for an electric fence or a heating element.
My title describes the thing.
Is there a hole where the “pincers” end? Like does it seem like something was run between them like a wire?
No hole!
I wonder if they are not early guide hooks for electrical wires or maybe even telegraph or telephone wires. Early telephone wires might make sense because in the system back then had separate wires specific for each house or party line(which would have multiple houses on it) they eventually switched to some sort of modulating system so they could use the same wires for transmitting multiple houses phones. I think that would also explain why ten might seem reversed? Maybe it was mounted on the opposite side of the pole or? This is just an educated guess, based on the fact that they look like wire guide hooks and are porcelain and so much of the stuff on telephone poles are porcelain or glass.
Are you sure they are porcelain, it looks like injection molded plastic, you can still see marks left by the mold.
I know they look it, but they are not plastic. (I will upload a video of the clink-clink sound they make when tapped together.)
They almost look like some sort of rocker switches to the right of the numbers? Like the hook part is part of a mechanism, with the numbers just to assist with assembly of something? Like this maybe?
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Looks like everything survived a fire, I believe they are guides for old style wiring
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Key hooks, I think, either for a business with numbered keys or, as another said, a old hotel/motel (pre-key cards)
The 10 would be upside down
Also these look more like technical items (for electricity maybe) than ornamental items.
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