✅ SOLVED More unidentified objects from the weekend hunt

[smr1000]

I hope that I'm not being a pain. Going through the stuff that I found this past weekend. Coins between 1900 and 1920 in the area.
Object in the first three photos is about 6 inches long and metal. Can't see it being a comb
Second image is a Dill standard 7 tire stem. Just curious as to the date and any information.
Last piece is small, Merc for comparison. Says patented July 16, 1907.

It is so fascinating to learn about the past of my area.
Grateful for any help, as always.
Steve

 

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[Retired Sarge]

Wild ass guess but I wonder if the first item might be a Curry Comb.

The second item I can make out DILL S T D or O VALVE STEM 7 on it. Don't know the size of it, but it would be a large tire to utilize a valve stem that big. Couldn't tell you a date on it.

Last item, beats me.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

First item could be a boot scraper but I think it might be an old tractor pedal. I think everything could be farm machinery related.

 

[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

First item could be a boot scraper but I think it might be an old tractor pedal. I think everything could be farm machinery related.

I was thinking a pedal or some kind of step also.

 

[smr1000]

Thanks so much. Sometimes the easy part is finding things... the hardest part can be figuring out what you've found!!

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

I have something just like your valve stem 7, only mine has most of the chrome still in place. I'd have to go find it, that was 20 years ago, but I kept it. It was discovered while digging for other reasons. Near an 18xx old log home betweeen very old apple trees. They were old back in the 1960's and still bear fruit. Gotta be to adjust the position of something.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Is it hollow? Could actually be a big tire valve? Fat end goes in side the rim.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Is it hollow? Could actually be a big tire valve? Fat end goes in side the rim.

Like for a set of double tires the inside valve stem could be longer.

 

[Mason Jarr]

Third item next to the merc is part of a hose clamp for a hot water bottle.

1972.37.16.5 - Bottle, Hot Water | Guelph Museums

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

I stumbled across mine accidentally today in that out building to feed the cats before the big snows get here. It was right on the top of bin full of junk. I never looked at it much back in the day, but that was decades before I learnt everything is treasure !!!

Sure enough it is hollow. I had to clean it out with a wire to determine this.

It is just shy of 3" OAL and seems to be brass coated with Ni.

Mine says TR DILL S 74 valve

Came from these guys https://www.dillvalves.com/whydill/history-of-dill/ back in the model T days.

No one has NOS for these parts, so a restorer might pay for them now.

soaking in vinegar now.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

I just noticed that on mine the lettering runs in the other direction. I guess they can feed these into the press in either way.