✅ SOLVED Anybody know what this weird contraption is?

[creskol]

Surgical grade stainless steel, 7 inches long, 1 inch ID on the cup portion

 

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[lonewolfe]

I don't know but I'm almost afraid to find out from the looks of it!

Cool find though :-)

HH

 

[creskol]

I don't know but I'm almost afraid to find out from the looks of it!

HH

LOL .. It was with some trepidation that I posted it!

 

[tennessee digger]

No idea Creskol but I like it. Looks very unusual and maybe somebody will know something about it. Tennessee digger

 

[kuger]

LOL .. It was with some trepidation that I posted it!

 

[Vagabondy3]

It looks like an old fashioned well pump (water, oil, sample collector). It would be opened, then lowered into water, then closed and the base is full of water. You can attach a string to it to lower it down and collect water (sample?) from a long way down.

Although I've never seen one quite like it so I may be wrong.

 

[Breezie]

It looks like an old fashioned well pump (water, oil, sample collector). It would be opened, then lowered into water, then closed and the base is full of water. You can attach a string to it to lower it down and collect water (sample?) from a long way down.

Although I've never seen one quite like it so I may be wrong.

This makes sense to me . . .I'm just glad it wasn't something medical! Breezie

 

[Archeodeb]

It looks like an old fashioned well pump (water, oil, sample collector). It would be opened, then lowered into water, then closed and the base is full of water. You can attach a string to it to lower it down and collect water (sample?) from a long way down.

Although I've never seen one quite like it so I may be wrong.

Would that be for sampling something that is layered -- so you could push through the top layer (of oil, say) to sample the heavier liquid (like water) beneath and then pull it back out full -- so the upper layer would not be able to get in at the open top? Otherwise, why not just lower a cup on a string?

 

[old digger]

Looks similar to a doughnut maker dispenser.

 

[dieselram94]

Looks like it maybe dispenses medication, like maybe down a horse's throat.....or other end?

 

[Vagabondy3]

Looks like it maybe dispenses medication, like maybe down a horse's throat.....or other end?

OH MY! lol, I hadn't thought of that!

 

[Vagabondy3]

Looks like it maybe dispenses medication, like maybe down a horse's throat.....or other end?

I think you're onto something. It looks like when you'd pull the string it would open it. So now it's really looking more like a dispenser.

 

[Paleopilot]

Here are some similar vet tools...

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Looks like it maybe dispenses medication, like maybe down a horse's throat.....or other end?

Doesnt look like the tool used Stainless Steel Bolus Gun | Shanes Tack Horse Care Blog but all stainless often means medical use.

Where did you obtain the item creskol?

 

[creskol]

Doesnt look like the tool used Stainless Steel Bolus Gun | Shanes Tack Horse Care Blog but all stainless often means medical use.

Where did you obtain the item creskol?

It came out of a box of contents from a "mom & pop" run country store that recently closed its doors after 32 years in operation.

 

[BuckleBoy]

It came out of a box of contents from a "mom & pop" run country store that recently closed its doors after 32 years in operation.

For some reason I don't think I care to find out what mom did to pop with that thing.

 

[ivan salis]

to put a item ( like a suppository) up a horse or cows rump ? or for breeding purposes to use to open a female animal up for depositing the seed in .

old mom and pop country stores often carried "animal feed and medical supplys " used commonly by local farmers and would have loaner or rental or for sale animal medical "tools" that could be used if you got medical supplys from them --vets were often only called in dire life and death cases

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Isnt it a bit too sharp edged for that?

It appears to slide by pushing the wire with your thumb but I dont see how it could deposit something with no opening on the working end.

It may be able to take a sample like Vagabondy said, or scrape and remove something but what? ...ouch.

Im sure you searched hard for any manufacturing marks.

 

[Archeodeb]

Isnt it a bit too sharp edged for that?

It appears to slide by pushing the wire with your thumb but I dont see how it could deposit something with no opening on the working end.

It may be able to take a sample like Vagabondy said, or scrape and remove something but what? ...ouch.

Im sure you searched hard for any manufacturing marks.

I agree -- definitely more likely to be a sampler of something than a "depositer". The construction is backwards for administering anything.

 

[creskol]

Great feedback guys and gals .. I appreciate the thoughts and efforts. .. muck obliged.