✅ SOLVED Possible Oil Lamp?

[deedubs]

Found at a Plantation house under a collapsed wall...Possibly an oil lamp but I can't find anything close to it online. I'd love to figure out what it is, how old and what its made of. Its a sealed cylinder with an opening at the top, there's actually a female thread at the bottom of the container (inside) and I did find a piece of turned wood with a threaded end in the same dig. The threaded flange is not connected to anything but I presumed that it was attached to the base of the cylinder because it's the same diameter....just guessing!
Appreciate any help!

 

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[ANTIQUARIAN]

Looks to be made of brass, if you pass your detector over it you'll soon enough!

Looks like it might be a tractor part, I don't think it has anything to do with lighting though.

Dave

 

[villagenut]

Could it be the top pipe fitting from an artesian well, where a hand pump could attach directly to the threaded nipple?

 

[deedubs]

The well idea is a good one.. researching that now. I just took a couple more pictures showing the inside of the cylinder, the turned wood post and the complete find. Maybe these will help.

 

[deedubs]

I think we may be on the right track with the pump idea.. the threaded part at the bottom of the cylinder does move, its independent of the bore.. so it does appear to be some type of piston.

 

[deedubs]

Ok..... so this thing just took a strange turn. I'm now fairly certain that its an 18th Century Pewter Clyster Syringe (enema). The dimensions, the wooden plunge handle, and the fittings all match others that I have seen on the internet. It is almost certainly pewter and its from a site where all my previous finds have been from the late 1700's. Well there's something you don't come across every day!

 

[deedubs]

 

[villagenut]

Thamk goodness for modern medicine, I would have run from that thing..yowzer !! nice find..vn.

 

[NHBandit]

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I got nothing except your yardstick reminded me that I got arrested on Boston Rd in Wilbraham for drag racing in the mid 70s.. Used to hang out at the Red Barn Speed Shop in Ludlow. Are you from that area ? Carry on.. And welcome

 

[deedubs]

Yeah... its a scary looking piece of work! The sheer size of it makes the eyes water!... Interesting find though, I just took the piston out of the tube and it still has the original packing material around it, amazing after all these years underground!

 

[deedubs]

 

[sutphin]

Man hate to have been on the receiving end of that bazooka!