Found this, what is it?

[Plate spinner]

Some sort of chimney ornament maybe? Any ideas before I lob it onto ebay?

[br d]

I believe they call those "Tat".

[sicasey]

[Plate spinner]

but what is it?!?

It's in my garden and I'd rather it wasn't... so ebay 99p start auction buyer collects here we come. But I don't even know what to call it

[Laurel Green]

Half a chimney pot.

[trickywoo]

Could be a decorative top for old cast iron drainpipes.

[GeneralSinn]

br d said:

I believe they call those "Tat".

I think it’s gone beyond tat and is not just rubbish

[evilmunkey]

post it as "Architectural salvage " some drew pritchard wannabe will be at it like a rat up a drainpipe . folk will by anything it seems.

[Down and out]

Is he meant to be decapitated?

[anonymous-user]

Are you sure you've not just been to Paris?

[wolfracesonic]

Gargoyle possibly?

[Dromedary66]

GeneralSinn said:

I think it’s gone beyond tat and is not just rubbish

Yes I am confused he thinks someone would pay to take that off his hands?

[KP328]

Maybe a drain downspout thing? just seems to be to much detail for it to be part of a chimney where nobody would see it.

[magooagain]

Don't be too hasty,was it in the reformation that heads were knocked off statues of religious stuff? 15th or 16th century?

[glenrobbo]

It's a piece of an ante-deluvian retro-thruster.
Not worth anything without the spoodle spigot and wangling throgger.

State of the art in its' day though.

Have you had any of the encrustation tested for deadly viruses?

[mike80]

Part of this?

[davhill]

Like someone said, had it got a French postmark? Notre Dame area?

[elanfan]

OP it looks a bit like those odd decorative pieces maybe even a candle holder fitted to the walls of churches/ religious buildings.

Why not send some photos with scale to an auction house. They have identifying and valuation days. It might turn out to be unusual but not valuable in which case a museum might like it.

[The Mad Monk]

Is it a hopper head?

A sort of decorative funnel at the top of a rain water pipe to collect one or more pipes/gutters to guide the water into the down pipe.

Might be worth a bit. Try one of those architectural salvage places. He will suck his teeth, shake his head and say "nah! I tell you what, I'll take it off your hands for a fiver".

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[Bright Halo]

You have found the “Harrison lesser spout”
Quickly, take it to Sotherby’s In a Relian three wheeler and put it up for auction.
This time tomorrow you could be a millionaire!