A couple of things found, need some help to ID them.

[nightryder87]

Hello all,

My brother found these two things recently from a local sale. I am thinking the battery powered light thing may be some sort of marker light. It looks like it sticks into the ground with the spike end. Looks like a bulb screws in to the end.

The other thing we have no idea what it would be. Possibly a primitive tool or some sort of weight for a larger item.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Alan

 

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[Back-of-the-boat]

I wonder if the second item could be part of a wooden leg. Peg leg.

 

[CaptEsteban]

Old " turpentine tools" to harvest the sap from pine trees. I am not sure if the first item is a tool for that, though.

https://www.google.com/search?q=tur...eAhWtd98KHRlRBSAQsAR6BAgEEAE&biw=1523&bih=719

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1....100.0j1......1....1..gws-wiz-img.U7qK3TQ1pXQ

 

[nightryder87]

I would have never figured out what kind of tool that was, thanks!

 

[DCMatt]

Pretty sure item #1 was NOT meant to stick in the ground. It reminds me of part of a carriage lamp.

 

[DCMatt]

Vintage battery operated wall sconce?

Like these...?

 

[Rookster]

Im thinking an oil lamp(as mentioned) and #2 is a fireplace axe.

 

[grasshopper]

Im thinking an oil lamp(as mentioned) and #2 is a fireplace axe.

I think Esteban nailed number 2 already with his harvesting tool ID.

 

[A2coins]

Good ID great relics

 

[A2coins]

Welcome also

 

[nightryder87]

Got in contact with a guy that fixes antique lanterns, lamps, flashlights etc and he said that the first item[FONT=&quot] is a parade light, carried in parades and marches. Originally, these were torches, then someone got the idea of adapting a flashlight to do the same thing. A bulb screws into the hole in the top. Unscrew the head, and insert batteries.

Thanks everyone for the help! [/FONT]

 

[CaptEsteban]

I still find some of those tools here in Florida. At one time, it was a pretty big business in the Southeast. Up North, you harvested Maple sap & down here, pine sap.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20040315/News/605205566/SH/