Please help identify.

[Rock22]

Found this the other day on my property the other day. I live on old farmland where a large barn once stood.

 

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[DCMatt]

Drain plug?

 

[ARC]

Tis pewter.

Perhaps a porringer / strainer ?

 

[firemanphob]

Looked like the bottom part of a radiator cap to me.

 

[DCMatt]

Tis pewter.

I was thinking brass... now I see the words on it.

I was also thinking kitchen sink drain plug, but it seems a bit too small for that...

 

[ARC]

I was thinking a squashed hurricane candle base.

 

[Haldean]

It may be the diaphragm in an old timey fuel pump to boost the windshield wiper vacuum. Any one remember vacuum windshield wipers and how they would quit when going up a hill. The engine loses vacuum the more you open the throttle so this booster on the fuel pump would supply vacuum and keep the wipers going. Not many cars came with this. It was an add on. I think you had to replace the whole fuel pump and this came on the new one. Cost extra!

 

[ARC]

Again... this is Pewter.

 

[Tpmetal]

Again... this is Pewter.

no offense here, but I have never seen pewter with a rolled lip like that... I'm gonna guess it might not be pewter, or only part of it is pewter. but hey I could be wrong
Edit just did some googling...I'm wrong lol

 

[releventchair]

I don't recall seeing any pewter ones , but the shape hints of a burner.

 

[ARC]

no offense here, but I have never seen pewter with a rolled lip like that... I'm gonna guess it might not be pewter, or only part of it is pewter. but hey I could be wrong
Edit just did some googling...I'm wrong lol

It says right on it "Genuine Pewter".

That is unless I read it wrong.

 

[Tpmetal]

It says right on it "Genuine Pewter".

That is unless I read it wrong.

yeah it does, was just thinking that it might only be that bottom part. my brain lead me astray.

 

[old digger]

Being Pewter, It looks like it may be the base stem to a bowl or candle stick?

 

[ARC]

Being Pewter, It looks like it may be the base stem to a bowl or candle stick?

Agreed.

 

[Rock22]

It does say pewter on the cap.

 

[Mimichele]

What about the top to a gas lamp or lantern? The holes would allow smoke to disapaye and not fog glass. Ive has similar on my kerosene lamps before but the section attached is confusing unless it was part of a shade.

 

[Zep11in]

I think it might be a lantern cap or base.

 

[Zep11in]

What about the top to a gas lamp or lantern? The holes would allow smoke to disapaye and not fog glass. Ive has similar on my kerosene lamps before but the section attached is confusing unless it was part of a shade.

what I was thinking

 

[Rock22]

That might be what it is. Thank you!

 

[Rock22]

Any idea of time frame?