I have no idea! But I think you're right they will look awesomein the garden!

I think you will have fun finding uses for these. I am fairly sure that they are golf tee markers. I like the plain metal much more than the usual colored ones.

I suppose golf tea markers could have gotten smaller (or I have gotten much larger in adulthood) but they were much bigger many years ago. I wonder if they were to direct garden hoses away from plants? It might work for that, and look nice at the same time.

One of those has a much longer spike. I don't know what they are but they would look great in the garden. Will you have to put a protective coat on them to keep them from discoloring?

The spikes also unscrew from the balls.

I'm not sure about protective coating. I hadn't even thought about that.

Really big push pins!

Haha, Gail. Yes they are pushpins for giants. :-)

Still never have figured out what they really are and I've never seen ones like them again. I will be making them part of my Fourth of July outdoor decoration.

lightning rod end caps?

Place card holders? I've seen something similar at events and weddings. The slots would be for holding place cards.

Definitely not place-card holders. There are no slots.

Banister knobs from a hotel stairway?

Hi Ryan,

I don't think so. They are a bit smaller than a baseball and the stakes that protrude from them are varied length and some unscrew from them. Plus they get super hot in any kind of sunlight.

I vote for the lightning rod idea.

It doesn't matter what they are for, the fun is what you make out of them. Papamama did you find a way to do that? Would love to see photos if you did. I think they would be great, just poked into the ground helter skelter around plants.

City! I still wish I knew what they were. Last year I used them in a patriotic container garden for 4th of July. The one issue they have is they get very hot in the sun. So one has to be careful.

Could they be gear shift knobs? I feel like I've seen something like these before and I should know what they are.

You may want to run this by the folks on the Antiques and Collectibles Forum.

tj

Did you ever get a definitive answer on what they are?

No I never have. I keep thinking I should post this picture and a few other more close-up shots on a few other sites to see if I can get some other answers. Just haven't gotten around to it.

I'm going to cross-post in the antiques and collectibles forum and see if anyone there has any other ideas.