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[Icewing]

This one has baffled an entire crew of smart fellas at the National Park and even one local mayor, now I ask of thee oh oh great Oracle of all Knowledge known as the internet. What is this strange contraption that I found in the same pastures that I found part of a cannon ball and several other strange items of old?

 

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[nhbenz]

It's sorta kinda like a small headlight bucket... or old motorcycle tach/speedo bucket.

 

[Tedyoh]

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[Icewing]

I just can't subscribe to the headlight theory for several reasons.
For starters you can see it has 4 posts that appear to be for connecting wires on the outside, and the inside has a sort of insulating thing with what look like pickups for some of armature. I'm wondering if it was some type of equipment related to old telegraph, telephone, or power lines?

 

[Tedyoh]

Could be, or maybe it was one light, or something else, connected to a series of others...

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[4x4x4]

....Detailed pictures would be nice.....first off I thought a 4 cylinder engine magneto.

 

[Icewing]

....Detailed pictures would be nice.....first off I thought a 4 cylinder engine magneto.

I too think it could have been some type of distributor cap and it's now in my junk pile, I'm not going to worry that much about it.

 

[DCMatt]

....Detailed pictures would be nice.....first off I thought a 4 cylinder engine magneto.

4 post solenoid body.

 

[The Rebel]

Kind of reminds me of a mine.