1. That is pretty clever analysis, but the loop is actually the handle.
  2. Hint number one . . . there is something inside the coil.
  3. An antique one of these with a bell or some sort of chime inside.
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  4. It is not musical, but that is funny!
  5. Is it a toy though?
  6. It's a huge magnet used to retrieve wayward metal bits
  7. It is not a magnet or a toy.
  8. Is it some sort of spreader? Maybe you put fertilizer or something in it and shook it and it would spread a little around at a time.
  9. you hang filthy rugs on a line and use this thing to pound the dust out of them.
  10. No. Your earlier guess was wrong, but it was warm.

    That is not its purpose, although it would probably work for that.