Museum owner cannot identify

[MrsFury]

Hi all. I visited a museum today and the owner has an item he cannot identify. I told him I'd post here in the hopes that y'all could help. Here are three pics I took of this item. It was found in an area between two lakes where the towns were wiped out in a hurricane in 1915. Thank you in advance for any replies.

 

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[BioProfessor]

I'll throw this into the mix. I'm old enough to remember some of the old gas pumps that would have a clear container on the top with markings on it to tell how much was inside. You would fill the container to the number of gallons you wanted by opening one valve - or pumping it - and then empty the gas through another valve - the nozzle into the tank.

So maybe there is a mark inside the container - or full was close enough - and you would open one valve to fill the container to the line/mark/top and then drain it out the other valve.

Just something to think about.

Daryl

 

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[USMC]

I was in a THRIFT STORE today and, thanks to remembering this post I read a few years ago, I saw and picked up one of these! Mine has a lid to it also! I don't have the pics yet, but I will put them up when I get home tonight.

I thought I'd bump this up too since we haven't found out exactly what it is. I am leaning toward something to do with the dairy industry.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I was in a THRIFT STORE today and, thanks to remembering this post I read a few years ago, I saw and picked up one of these! Mine has a lid to it also! I don't have the pics yet, but I will put them up when I get home tonight.

I thought I'd bump this up too since we haven't found out exactly what it is. I am leaning toward something to do with the dairy industry.

Thanks for posting. I think its a McCormick Deering Lye Dispenser but the green check wasnt posted. Can you post pictures?

 

[USMC]

I was in a THRIFT STORE today and, thanks to remembering this post I read a few years ago, I saw and picked up one of these! Mine has a lid to it also! I don't have the pics yet, but I will put them up when I get home tonight.

I thought I'd bump this up too since we haven't found out exactly what it is. I am leaning toward something to do with the dairy industry.

Thanks for posting. I think its a McCormick Deering Lye Dispenser but the green check wasnt posted. Can you post pictures?

Pictures posted... I might bring some of the residue from the inside to the university chemistry dept to have it tested for chemical composition.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

It looks like a dairy lye dispenser alright. Look at this pic. The brass valve is pictured. Its apparently a wall mount. The only real difference is 2 valves. SOLD $250!!

 

[NOLA_Ken]

That's really cool, I've been planning to get out to that same area where it was found sometime. Just curious is it the town that started with an F or the one with an R?

 

[bradyboy]

Ceramic pickle cask / vat ..........
Brady

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Ceramic pickle cask / vat ..........
Brady

pickles and lye? :P

 

[flip4life]

It is a lye crock.

I have an extensive crock collection and I had to buy this when I saw it. I paid $10 and I have never seen anything like it. It's a lye crock. Aftermarket hours of research to figure out what it was, I found my answer on my answer on my redwing collectors page. The double spigot was a design uaed by redwing, and they put the makers mark on the lid. Mine does not have a lid so I do not know if it a redwing or not. The only 2 that I came across without McCormick on it, are the ones posted here and my own. Sometimes this means it's older. The one with McCormick on it was sold at the redwing collectors auction for about $100 with the lid and 2 spigots.

I was in a THRIFT STORE today and, thanks to remembering this post I read a few years ago, I saw and picked up one of these! Mine has a lid to it also! I don't have the pics yet, but I will put them up when I get home tonight.

I thought I'd bump this up too since we haven't found out exactly what it is. I am leaning toward something to do with the dairy industry.

 

[Retired Fire]

Here is a shot in the dark,

My Dad was in the funeral business and he was always showing antique embalming equip he had found around places. He had this syringe that was a hand held fluid injector. I found one like his on the net, see photo. Anyway it may be possible this is a larger table mounted formaldehyde fluid injector that had a weighted plunger. They would hook lines to the veins, fill the tank with fluid. Put the plunger in the top and then open the valves as needed to force blood from the body and replace it with hot fluid (Formaldihyde) Just my guess!

This photo is a handheld injector. What ya think?

 

[Retired Fire]

Or it could be a Lye Pot, LOL!

 

[jakewilliam]

Old blood transfusion kits have a part in them that catches the blood and is the same in design I've seen in old military medical kits , post 1930s were stainless , a possibility ?

 

[diggummup]

This thing was solved years ago. Needs a "solved" green check for obvious reasons. It's a lye crock