I'm going to say it was used in an old screw in fuse. We used to put them in the socket then screw the bad fuse back in. We did a lot of stupid things back then.
The short that would have shut down that lead from the box, would now be burning until the power went off during the fire. Thus the end of the fuse box days and now the breaker box switches.
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