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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:14:35 PM EDT
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Not the cop blood at all.  I've always been a history nut. Even taught it in the past. England at the turn of the century was a seriously screwed up place. Masons, opium dens, (Most of the upper class were closet addicts) Jack The Ripper, the China and India trade wars, frontal lobotomies touted as an headache cure, all sorts of good fun.  |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:19:23 PM EDT
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I have no idea what it is. But I want one.
It almost looks a bit ornamental. It kinda looks like one of those weird vacuum-grenades from the movie "the arrival." |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:19:42 PM EDT
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It rotates 360 degrees, The gears keep it centered on the cradle{?} . The handle on the bottom has screw holes in it so something was probably attached there at one time. This item has no numbers or writing on it anywhere. The wood bowl has no burn mark on it at all. 
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:21:29 PM EDT
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Would you churn it in a house? |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:22:19 PM EDT
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That is probably the best guess i've seen thus far. My guess is that it is some sort of Nautical navigation aid. I gather that from all of the brass, the 360deg rotation and 45deg elevation. ETA- On second thought, maybe it belongs in the galley. |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:25:10 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:25:10 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:27:41 PM EDT
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I thought the exact same thing until I saw the Bowl/bulb was made out of 3/4 inch wood with no small holes in it. |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:32:36 PM EDT
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it's a US Army AIRCORP device from WWI. They used it to manufactire Flight line.
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:34:45 PM EDT
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It's his
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:39:22 PM EDT
[#11]
A bong?
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:39:30 PM EDT
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It might actually not be "anything". It could be some failed invention and no-one but the guy who made it knows what it was meant to do. Well, him and the guy who laughed him out of the patent office.
Or it could be an auto butter churn. |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:39:31 PM EDT
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That is the nozzle from my EX's douche machine. She got around!
 
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:43:03 PM EDT
[#14]
No markings anywhere?
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:48:02 PM EDT
[#15]
No..... sorry. |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:50:28 PM EDT
[#16]
I bet the manuals sitting right next to it and you're just fucking with us......
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:54:03 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/18/2005 1:58:01 PM EDT
[#18]
Magna Flux Particle Compensator?????
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Posted: 8/18/2005 2:34:39 PM EDT
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A reproduction mixer for Greek Fire...
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Posted: 8/18/2005 2:46:29 PM EDT
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I can't believe guys from a gun board wouldn't know this...
 Brass polisher. Seriously though, My guess would be a gemstone polisher or the like. Hence the wood bowl rather than a much easier to make metal bowl. It looks like water and a polishing medium might have been sprayed through the brass "strainer" or shower head at the top of the bowl. The holes are large enough to allow the polishing aggregate to pass through with the water. The bowl would occilate and the excess water would exit the side pipe and fixture. leaving the heavier material on the bottom of the bowl. Or possibly...  GM |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 3:38:14 PM EDT
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geez, that's easy. It is a globaltronic atmosphericon. I got like a millon of those, Gosh.
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Posted: 8/18/2005 3:42:58 PM EDT
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Sorry can't seem to come up with anything. |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 3:44:47 PM EDT
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it looks as if it is meant to grind or filter something, I think your missing some items for it.
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Posted: 8/18/2005 3:46:12 PM EDT
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Bingo! We have a winner... It's the crews bong from the Nautilus! They had to keep the hollywood film crew occupied somehow. 
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Posted: 8/18/2005 3:46:52 PM EDT
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Not sure what the thing is.
I would definately ask her if I could shoot it for target practice though. Take that thing out to the shooting range and go postal on it's ass. |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 3:47:37 PM EDT
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Don't have a clue... Does it have any burn/heat marks anywhere?
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Posted: 8/18/2005 3:53:08 PM EDT
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An estimated 350 patents on water closet construction inundated the U. S. Patent Office between 1900 and 1932. While most were considered insignificant, some featured new developments we now take for granted: a wall-mounted closet with a blow-out arrangement; a tank that rests on the bowl; reverse trap toilets and improvements to speed up siphonic action; concealed jets; the centrifugal rotation of water in the bowl; flushometer valve; backflow preventer. All in all, the 20th century marks the boundary of the modern plumbing industry.
www.pmmag.com/CDA/ArticleInformation/features/BNP__Features__Item/0,2379,6748,00.html Backflow preventer is evident in the pictures(particularly the fourth) as the large hex nut on the brass piping.I wouldn't bet money on it but I suspect you have some sort of toilet tank. |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 4:05:01 PM EDT
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It's a Continuum Transfunctioner - a device whose power is exceeded only by its mystery.
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Posted: 8/18/2005 4:12:30 PM EDT
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Consider where you found it , it may be a bilge pump for a flooded basement. I have seen them made of extremely hard wood.
Or Find out what the guy did for a living, maybe that will help answer the question of purpose. Bilge pump Washing machine Coffee peculator Hooka Hair dryer Still Commode Steam distibutor Medical device It also looks turn of the century, almost like an item from Will Smiths 'Wild Wild West'. |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 4:18:16 PM EDT
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I don't know what it is, but I know who made it.........
John Galt. AB |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 4:44:12 PM EDT
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Man that looks a helluva lot like industrial or scientific compounding equipment. A couple of questions:
1- what is the "base ring" attached to? Is it just a flat piece of wood it was screwed to for display or did it come out of the ground like that? 2- in the first picture, does the small 'lever' sticking out to the left act as a gate to change the orifice size/flow rate out of the container? If not what does it do? 3- what keeps the 'lid' held on? Did she break it apart to clean it or has it always just loosely 'sat' on top? Pending the answers above my best guess is that this is the 'surge pot' or 'feed hopper' portion of larger assembly for mixing some sort of chemicals or finely ground organic matter. The brass base ring would have attached to a mixer vessel (think like a concrete mixer truck but smaller) and the feed hopper sat above it. This would ensure that it was always above the opening to the mixer even when the mixing vessel was tilted. The 'strainer' looks like a modern aseptic processing 'spray ball' where water or fluid could be introduced from the top to rinse down the insides of the hopper. The wood and metalwork is friggin beautiful, truly an amazing piece of industrial art. |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 4:55:18 PM EDT
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QBERT
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Posted: 8/18/2005 5:59:29 PM EDT
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That is quite obviously the original In-sink-erator.
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:02:18 PM EDT
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Never seen a "Skull Shrinker" before....
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:04:28 PM EDT
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WTF is wrong with you? I bet you'd spend $1 silver certificates at the convenience store. 
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:05:39 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:07:22 PM EDT
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It's a steam powered orgasmatron.
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:09:58 PM EDT
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Ill give you 20 bucks for it.
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:22:18 PM EDT
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Dont know but you should call her up for fun one night claiming to be from the guv....
"Mam we need to come and talk to you about the object you found in the ground...Its critical we meet with you within the next 24 hours....were here to help."
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:23:00 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:26:06 PM EDT
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Something with water for sure.
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:26:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:27:12 PM EDT
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The first GPS used by the Wright Bros
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:28:15 PM EDT
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Secretly list the sonofabitch on Ebay for $10,000. If it sells, offer her $1000 cash for it. |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:34:16 PM EDT
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Take it to the Antique Roadshow when they come to your town, maybe they will know, i know what it is though.....its an antique brass tumbler, i think thats dillons first prototype actually
.McM
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:35:06 PM EDT
[#46]
It's got to be a whim-wham for a dogs ass. Or, a wigglin' pin for a wobblin' hole.
I think it's actually a time machine, give me some time to come up with what kind of machine it is. Danny
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:37:34 PM EDT
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It's an old WW2 German medical instrument used for extracting the brain from severed heads while still keeping the face intact. Duh!!!
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:39:12 PM EDT
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Its part of a lighthouse.
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:39:57 PM EDT
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As an auctioneer friend of mine is fond of saying...
"I don't know WHAT it is... but ITS A GOOD ONE!" |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:41:56 PM EDT
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Since the "hopper" is made of wood, I would assume that it's contents would be dry.
My guess would be some kind of bean or grain grinder. Perhaps for coffee, oats, hops, or wheat. Pretty cool. |
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