Anyone recognise this?

[Twister_Ken]

No, not the pound coin.

The button, or catch, or latch, was found on the coachroof, near the base of the mast.

Rings no bells with me (so not a bellpush, then) and may have been dropped there by a passing thieving magpie, but just in case, does anyone recognise it as a part of anything maritime?

Thanks for any help.

 

[RAI]

Looks like an end stopper thingie. Any slides/groves up the mast?

 

[rob2]

Nothing comes immediately to mind, but please put it in your bits box or else you'll find out too late what it was!

Rob.

 

[KristiferColumbus]

Looks like an end stopper thingie. Any slides/groves up the mast?

same here,stop the sail slides coming out the end of the track?
By the way that pound coin looks dodgy mine has got writing round the edge,never seen one like that.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Looks like an end stopper thingie. Any slides/groves up the mast?

Lots, but the stopper is a substantial metal gate.

 

[Rigger Mortice]

By the way that pound coin looks dodgy mine has got writing round the edge,never seen one like that.

The reverse of the 2005 coin showed the Menai bridge. The edge pattern symbolised bridges and pathways

Sad eh?

 

[alahol2]

Looks like a button out of a telescopic thing. Boat hook, whisker pole, aluminium oar... etc?

 

[Dipper]

This is going to drive me mad because I have a very distant recollection of pressing that red object down with my thumb and pushing it sideways until it clicks in place.

 

[LadyInBed]

Oval shape and retaining clip suggests that a circular male fitting clips into the female receptical that this clip has fallen out of.
Mast head light comes to mind!

 

[Twister_Ken]

Mast head light comes to mind!

Arghhh!

 

[Dipper]

I've remembered but I don't think it will help much. The one I've seen is an end stopper for the bar on a paper trimmer.

 

[Dipper]

Just had a thought to narrow things down a bit. If Ken could determine the radius of the curve on his mysterious object, it would give him an idea as to the size (diameter) of the object to which it was fitted.

Of course it might have come off someone else's boat transported in the wind or by a bird.

 

[explores]

Kens had a bird on his boat?

 

[matthew99]

batten end? You may not have seen the battens out of the sail for some time.

 

[trapezeartist]

... a circular male fitting clips into the female receptical ...

I'm all in favour of them!

 

[Twister_Ken]

batten end? You may not have seen the battens out of the sail for some time.

No, the batten ends are black, and big. This thing is only the size of a decent toenail clipping.

 

[Slowtack]

Lifejacket pullchord retainer/clip??