Any ideas on what this might have been?

[Doris]

A fellow artist dug this up from her garden and gave it to me with a load of other rusty metal objects. One end is threaded and the the hole on the other side is too.

Any suggestions?

 

[John Brown]

A casement closer thing?

 

[Sachakins]

A window handle locking lever.

 

[John Brown]

A window handle locking lever.

That's what I meant. Just couldn't think of the term..