✅ SOLVED Brass spout?

[fever87]

I found this at a federal campsite from the '62 Peninsula Campaign. It is brass with a tube and is 1" across. Any ideas what it is too?

 

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[mick56]

Could it be the lid to a gunpowder tin or flask?

 

[CC Hunter]

Your threaded brass top, is from a whale oil lamp.

The tube (originally straight and now bent) is where the wick extended up.

These small whale oil lamps, in the base container portion, were quite often made of thin rolled tin plated sheet iron (much like a tin can), and soldered at the seams. The oil container portion when made of tinned iron, is in most instances nearly rusted away, leaving only the threaded brass tops.

http://www.rubylane.com/item/368275-3396/Miniature-Whale-Oil-Finger-Sparking

CC Hunter

 

[fever87]

CC Hunter - thanks for the quick and solid ID! I'd have to say it from the rubylane pics you are spot on with it.