What did I find

[BigKnappa]

Found this today on a gravel bar in the middle of the Colorado river in Texas. It’s 3 inches long, has a hole on one side and is really smooth.

[SurfaceHunter]

Is it stone?

[NJ]

The inside bottom of the drill hole looks machine manufactured a little.

Whats the material?

Is there drill marks?

[BigKnappa]

Completely smooth and it’s really kinda hard to explain the material. It looks like rubber, feels like a rock but splinters like wood. Found t along side three points.

[SurfaceHunter]

Looks like a old plastic to me by the crazing

[BigKnappa]

[NJ]

That little nipple inside the hole suggests some type of injection molding process.

[Glacial Pebble]

Maybe try holding it few inches from a lighter flame and see if it starts to smoke or bubble a bit.. I’ve found a few pieces of old plastic that have had me thinking I had something else .

[BigKnappa]

So I put the lighter to it and it smells like leather. No bubble or melting

[SurfaceHunter]

A heated stick pin is a better test if needle goes in then it’s plastic

[Olden]

I'll guess it's part of an old molded knife / utensil handle, similar to this..

https://www.ebay.com/itm/6-Pcs-Vintage-SHARP-CUTTER-Royal-Brand-Cutlery-Flatwear-Red-Lucite-Handle-/272134375116

[NJ]

I'll guess it's part of an old molded knife / utensil handle, similar to this..

https://www.ebay.com/itm/6-Pcs-Vintage-SHARP-CUTTER-Royal-Brand-Cutlery-Flatwear-Red-Lucite-Handle-/272134375116

Good find!

Thats exactly what the little tip is inside the hole.

Its where the blade or whatever was held in place.

[BigKnappa]

Okay So I guess you have to see it in person and hold to realize that is deff from another time. So I did some research and I came up with a bead, and the one hole not completely through is because it was a pendulum.

https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedi...ssippi-valley/

[OnewiththewilD]

That’s not a bead, and not a NA artifact from what I can see. That hole is modern made in my opinion

[BigKnappa]

It can’t be plastic or it would’ve melted, this pic is after 1min of direct flame. It might be extraterrestrial material. Idk what it is, but I’m going to tell everybody it’s an artifact it they ask! Lol

[Broken Arrow]

It would not have melted if it is bakelite or one of the other early synthetic plastics. I have seen bakelite be put directly into a fire and come out unscathed. I'm not saying that it is bakelite but I do think it is a synthetic plastic. You'd be surprised how resilient some of those materials can be.

[SurfaceHunter]

That’s the word I was looking for bake a like. BRoken Arrow nailed it

[gregszybala]

Nice link. What you are looking at in those pictures is pipestone, originates out of Southwestern Minnesota. Not the same material. Interesting find none the less.