What kind of barge would this be off?

Looks a bit short to me. More likely to be a gearchange lever I would say.

I have (somewhere tucked away under the flooring) a similar lever that was the throttle lever for Sabina's Glennifer 

I must dig them out and take a photo to post.

That's interesting and thinking about it don't the Gleniffers have a wheel for gear change? A picture of your lever would be interesting.



I was thinking of the gear change lever you sometimes see on L&L boats but kris would have seen similar if it was one.

those gear change levers off L&L boats, where when they had gardners installed. My own boat had one when it had a 2lw installed.

All things considered, and if it is in fact off a barge of some sort, I'd say the likeliest use would have been as an engine throttle control, . . . something of a very similar size/length was commonly used for that on barges fitted with Gardner L3 type engines, from the 4's in the ''Duker's'' (Parelia, Parfield, Parcastle etc., etc.) to the 5's in the ''Selby's'' (BOCM fleet at Selby) and the more numerous 6's and 8's that were found in other fleets.

I'd rule out it being a gears lever off a Leeds and Liverpool boat, . . all of those I've ever seen, on wooden or steel/iron boats, were solid steel round bar set at an angle on a vertical shaft coming up through the engine casing top, close to the after edge of it.

Whatever it is, the seller has certainly got a sense of humour about what it's worth !

 

That's got me stumped completely, . . . are there the remains of a thread on the short protrusion beyond the round boss on the left-hand end ?