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    Question Help with identifying old keys

    I found these keys on an old farm. They are 4 1/4" long. Any ideas as to their age and/or what they were used for?

    Thanks
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    Here is another pic of the keys.
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    I'm not so certain that they're keys at all, "they" look like some sort of anchor eye-bolts that was attached to a wall perhaps.

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    I'm with Peerless on this, But I do believe it's off a single or double tree, from a wagon.http://www.drivehorses.com/double_trees,_neck_yokes.htm
    Mark A. Billesbach

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    The ends don't look like a bolt. It's some sort of crudely hand-forged thinga-ma-jig that some old farmer used for who-knows-what. Mind you, I found these about about 5 inches under the dirt, on the site of an old farm that's been gone for about 40yrs.
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    I think that Mark nailed this one. Many farmers had a blacksmith shop on the farm, we did, & a lot of hardware on yokes, single trees, wagons & about any thing else iron was made in the shop...These could have been used in the first yoke shown..A LOT of these items were fit thru the hole & then swaged or hammered to mushroom the end as bolts & nuts were scarce around many old subsistence farms...
    The size is about correct for this application......Donnie

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