Admiral de Salee
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These 3 items came from under a big momma tree root on an 1836 site. The disc is metal enclosing an intact piece of clear glass (don't know if there's reflective stuff under the glass, making it a mirror).
I'm not positive that the disc goes with the other 2 parts, but they were all in the same hole.
The little knob-and-axle was loose on the pointy end; I put it back into the little hole in the housing that it belongs in.
I can flip the items over and take more pics if necessary. Any i.d. help on these interesting bits greatly appreciated.
---------Info Added on Sunday 10/21-------------
The little mirror disc was mounted on the axle. The "hole" in the side of the housing (the 2 big pieces used to be joined) looks to have been where another tube was mounted at 90° to the parts I have.
Some sort of periscope or thing-to-look-around-corners is what I'm thinking.
The larger, squashed end was the eyepiece. The other half of the housing has a fibery disc in it that has a small hole in the center.
As Forrest G. said, "That is all I know about that".
I'm not positive that the disc goes with the other 2 parts, but they were all in the same hole.
The little knob-and-axle was loose on the pointy end; I put it back into the little hole in the housing that it belongs in.
I can flip the items over and take more pics if necessary. Any i.d. help on these interesting bits greatly appreciated.
---------Info Added on Sunday 10/21-------------
The little mirror disc was mounted on the axle. The "hole" in the side of the housing (the 2 big pieces used to be joined) looks to have been where another tube was mounted at 90° to the parts I have.
Some sort of periscope or thing-to-look-around-corners is what I'm thinking.
The larger, squashed end was the eyepiece. The other half of the housing has a fibery disc in it that has a small hole in the center.
As Forrest G. said, "That is all I know about that".
