✅ SOLVED Any Ideas?

[Cantstopdigging]

Hello forum,

Do have any ideas what this could be from? Maybe a clean out gate from an old wood stove, or a gate on the back of an old dump truck?

 

[G.A.P.metal]

looks like a chimney clean out door...i have one like that in my cellar for cleaning the chimney .
Gary

 

[Cantstopdigging]

Thanks Gary. I wish I could research the company McCord.

 

[Cantstopdigging]

It almost looks like DOT91 at the bottom.

 

[Cantstopdigging]

This was found alongside the Erie Canal. I will clean it some more. I want to see more of those numbers. Thanks for looking.

 

[Cantstopdigging]

Okay, the last line reads Oct 31 1905

 

[releventchair]

New York had a McCord iron works.

 

[Cantstopdigging]

Okay cool! Thanks releventchair! It looks like the middle line is a date too. So L21 McCord Pat Feb7 1890 Oct 31 1905. And a makers mark triangle with. Capital T inside.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

The Erie canal had steamboats so maybe from one of them?

 

[Cantstopdigging]

Back-of-the-boat, my thoughts exactly. There is a train in the area too.

 

[Anduril]

Probably part of a larger machine. (?)
You might find the patent online here:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89048455281;view=1up;seq=1189

 

[nhbenz]

It’s a train axle journal box lid. This isn’t quite the right patent, but it references the correct one (803,155).

https://patents.google.com/patent/US1228576A/en

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

It’s a train axle journal box lid. This isn’t quite the right patent, but it references the correct one (803,155).

https://patents.google.com/patent/US1228576A/en

Great I.D. Ben

 

[Cantstopdigging]

OMG!!! You nailed it nhbenz! Thanks everyone!