Any help what this is?

[goodsams10092012]

It appears bronze. Maybe a trivet? They both have 3 tabs/feet where it may have sat. The tabs are threaded inside. On one the tabs were repaired so it would appear they were important in its function??

All metal. Where the tab is broken the inside is an unfinished gray metal. Any help appreciated!

[gauntlettgems]

Does the metal magnetize? I don’t think they’d be trivets

[goodsams10092012]

Good question! Not magnetic. So probably bronze

[hamptonauction]

Does not look like bronze to me

[gauntlettgems]

@hamptonauction This is what I was thinking too

[goodsams10092012]

Going crazy trying to figure it out... no markings anywhere. The flower prints match so it's definitely a set. Maybe ends of a book/magazine rack? The feet are threaded

[the_piedmonte_family]

IMHO

The threaded "feet" would have srewed into something metal, covering a hole as big as the plates.  That means they would have been able to be reached from behind.  So whatever they were on had an open back, or was large enough to have an opening to reach these pieces from behind.

My guess, decorative plates to a parlor stove.

[goodsams10092012]

Pot metal; its made of pot metal. Pewter inside

[hamptonauction]

Agree, with pot metal aka spelter/die-cast zinc.