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@Oliver Schick
This is an interesting find, mainly because of the antiquity of metalworking on show here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/19/ancient-metal-tubes-unearthed-in-1897-could-be-oldest-surviving-drinking-straws
I don't know much about metalworking (someone I know volunteers at archaeological digs in his retirement and was once at a very old metalworking site in Georgia (not US)), but I'd guess a lot of metal was re-used when it was still relatively scarce, so that finds like this must be especially rare.