My first and IMO best 
guess is a pennant flag waving in the wind. It also kind of looks like a curving/twisting animal horn. (Also- a wall mounted seal trophy and a pointing finger-- and probably a lot of other things- but I doubt these.) Google is not helping. Anyone know or have an opinion? TIA
tiny_tailor
·1 year agoMy guess would be an Italian "Cornicello Pepper" pin used to ward off evil spirits or the 'Evil Eye'
Usually worn around the neck on a chain.
1940fc
·1 year agoHmmmm... you may be on to something tiny_tailor!
I`ve always wondered what that shape was supposed to be! Now I know! 😊
evelyb30
·1 year agoIt looked like a pennant to me too , along the lines of a souvenir one. Some of the vintage pennants were that shape.
vernon1959
·1 year agoMy impression was a flag. Like someone mentioned earlier a nautical flag.
roccotacodad54
·1 year agoIt reminds me of a nautical pennant. See the slight arc on the blunt end where it would be attached to a line/rope and pulling on it in the wind? Also the billowy shape like it flapping in the wind.
I believe such a pennant would signal danger flying from a boat or ship and the same on a beach or shoreline.
Of course I'm not an expert on nautical pennants but I think that's what it represents.
wastingtime101
·1 year agoGood thought, but I disagree @roccotacodad54 . In my experience nautical signal flags are:
- shorter pointed triangles
- shorter rectangles
- shorter rectangles with a triangle cut out to make a double-pointed end
- or longer triangles with a blunt end rather than a pointed end - like someone cut the tip off the triangle
I'm not an expert, but I do have a decent amount of experience on boats.
Of course it could be a very artistic interpretation by an artist that has never been on a boat?
nyr134
·1 year agoCould be a flame
wastingtime101
·1 year agoCould just be a random shape, like these:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126836197968
https://www.ebay.com/itm/388693559480
abethkap
OP1 year agoThank you-- I like that. Kind of like a modernist brooch (for the time.) Maybe it just is what it is.
abethkap
OP1 year agoThere doesn't seem to be any kind of consensus about what it would represent, so, I think random shape seems right. Thank you
wastingtime101
·1 year agoI would have guessed dagger blade (no handle).
1940fc
·1 year agoOk..here`s my best (and worst) 🙃 I turned your pic & it reminded me of an elongated cartoonish stocking cap for some reason LOL Aren`t ya glad you asked?
abethkap
OP1 year agoWicked witch hat? This is kind of like a Rorschach test. Thanks for looking-- still holding out hope that it's identifiable.
1940fc
·1 year agoSit tight..we got some pretty good sleuths round here!