✅ SOLVED Need help with unknown item

[bayou6895]

 

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[Mackaydon]

Tea strainer?
Don........

 

[bayou6895]

Was thinking that also, but cannot find any pictures of this one.

 

[squiggy]

I bet your correct on the tea strainer..this pic is same idea

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[Back-of-the-boat]

Sink drain strainer basket.

 

[River Rat]

Check out some of the "Vintage Tea Strainers", some are similar just a little bit. https://www.google.com/search?q=vin...8oH4Cw&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&biw=1477&bih=735

 

[JunkShopFiddler]

If it's a tea strainer something seems missing that keeps the entire thing from going into the water, the loose tea would float out. (maybe it's a hand held kidney stone strainer...eek!)

 

[squiggy]

It kinda depends on how deep it is, I have one that is open on top, but hooks on side of cup..maybe the handle serves that purpose..beats me!

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[bayou6895]

All good ideas, but i would think a tea strainer would have a cover so it wouldn't float out also.

 

[Mackaydon]

Pour slowly.........
Don...

 

[squiggy]

It doesn't float out, cause you put the strainer with tea in it, in a cup, then pour water down in it..then it becomes weighted down, to some extent..

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[Back-of-the-boat]

I wonder if it isn't something related to camping gear, maybe lantern part or camp stove part?

 

[bradyboy]

First of all, based on the construction, the handle is designed to lift the inverted cup with holes
Not a strainer - just the opposite, flip it over, the holes are meant to be on top, creating a cap of sorts
this looks to be a cap of some sort, for gas flame? A flame diffuser?
I like the idea of a camping item, gas lamp?
BradyBoy

 

[bradyboy]

any marks of any kind?
Looks somewhat modern due to the design
May want to look at coleman lanterns - parts
Brady

 

[Crawdigger]

When I first saw it my first impression was some type of flame diffuser. I agree with bradyboy.
Also the handle seems to be somewhat long. Possibly to keep the users hand away from a flame??

 

[Crawdigger]

Here are some examples....

 

[olroy70]

I keep thinking it is a strainer for kerosene lanterns.

if you every dealt with it, water collects and gums up the works. (used that for lites as a kid.)

 

[cudamark]

I agree with bradyboy also. The basket would be up-side-down if the bail was used as a handle. It doesn't look like a handle anyway considering the shape and design. I'm thinking it is a retainer of some sort. The basket would mount on something and the bail would swing over the top of that something and snap in a groove, holding the perforated cup in place....kinda like an old style brake master cylinder lid. As for it's purpose? Filter? Drain?

 

[Kevo_DFX]

Possibly something for a Fondue burner?

 

[bigfoot1]

it may be part of an early gas lamp.It would have been covered with a mantle like this...