Anyone know what this is?

[BadAdze]

Got this in a jar with other various items in an antique store.



It is numbered 1-6 here



You can see numbers through hole and the opening opens a little more the higher the number.
Obviously it is for measuring something. But what?

 

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[HutSiteDigger]

Looks like some sort of modern artillery thingy! Can't wait too find out what it is.

 

[ctalmadg]

spaghetti measurer.

 

[vpnavy]

Don't know what the copper cylinder is but I do recognize the lighter BadAdze!

 

[BadAdze]

Lol vpnavy, its brass, and if you look at the first pic the metal looks stretched from the bottom to the center.

 

[Bryanhashemi]

Also looks military to me too. Maybe to measure gunpowder? Not sure

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Can you post a pic of the bottom? It does look like it's made from an artillery shell but I have no idea what it would have been used for.

 

[BadAdze]

i have thought about the powder theory,, let me ask, does anyone know if that when powder was in small kegs, did they have a spout? This could have gone over it to measure powder, look at it, firt pic, brass is stretched from going over something...

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

i think it is a salt shaker...trench art type.

 

[BadAdze]

I was thinking the salt dispenser, but trench art is very interesting. I also thought something to measure spices and such for cooking. i really like the trench art thing. i really think this went with something else.

 

[BadAdze]

Anyone please, throw ideas out there, someone has to have some ideas.

 

[fatkook626]

yea i think it is a salt or pepper shaker,the kind that grins the salt/pepper when you turn it

 

[BadAdze]

Come on you guys and gals, someone has to have seen this at one time or another....it is driving me crazy not knowing...lol

 

[cw0909]

WAG some kind of weird egg timer, #6 hole pours the fastest

 

[woodstock]

With all the notches and numbers it looks like might have been some sort of dispenser and it's missing a bottom piece . That might have had chambers that held something so when you put it on a number and tipped it the contents ( whatever it was holding ) came out thru the hole on top .... just a guess . Woodstock

 

[Breezie]

I'm going in an entirely different direction, and think it's some type of vintage release valve perhaps for steam or water that when dialed to the higher number allows a larger openings.

Interesting find
Breezie