🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Brass fitting?

[invent4hir]

This was found where, I believe, a log cabin was built in the Midwest about 1810. The picture shows a pair of side views in the middle and the corresponding ends on the left and right. It has fine threads indicating it screwed into something. The ½ moon holes on either side do not appear to go straight through or connect to the ends. I tried to clear out the small hole on the right end, but did not succeed in breaking through. There are no markings of any kind.

Artifacts dating from the late-1700s to mid-1800s found nearby include a 2 Reale, 5 Large Cents, a Flat Button, Rose Head Nails, Pottery Sherds, etc. In about 1835 a larger frame home was built on the same property about 600 feet away, after which time the cabin may have been used for another purpose.

Thoughts on ID and age appreciated.

 

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[Robot]

Hi Invent4hir,
It appears to me to be a "Vintage Police or Boy Scout Whistle

 

[invent4hir]

Robot, thanks for replying. A whistle was my first thought also, then after removing the dirt and seeing the threads, I began to wonder. That said, I'll go back and look at more whistles.

 

[ticndig]

It looks more like a burner part to me, something like this.

 

[invent4hir]

It looks more like a burner part to me, something like this.View attachment 2191580

ticndig, thanks that is a fascinating suggestion! I need to go look at some 18th & 19th c burners for similar.

 

[invent4hir]

After being unable to find a similar whistle or bunsen burner part, I re-looked at how this could've been used and came up with the pic below and this corresponding description: 1) When this fitting is screwed into something this portion is outside. 2) This portion is outside. 3) A gas or liquid is forced in at this end while at the same time the steel/iron tip inside is depressed. 4) The steel/iron tip is attached to a shaft that pushes the opposite end of the fitting open allowing the gas or liquid to exit here.

Thoughts?

 

[Tony in SC]

Looks like a spray nozzle, maybe for an antique Hardee sprayer.

 

[invent4hir]

Looks like a spray nozzle, maybe for an antique Hardee sprayer.

Tony in SC, thanks for the tip! I'll research spray nozzles and see if I can find something similar.

 

[DCMatt]

Maybe the bulb from a capillary tube temp gauge?

 

[invent4hir]

Maybe the bulb from a capillary tube temp gauge?

DCMatt, thanks for the suggestion! I'll take a look.