✅ SOLVED Colonial t-handled something

[DownNDirty]

Found this brass relic at a site where I have found relics dating from the mid-1700s through the early 1800s. Any ideas?

 

[DownNDirty]

Trying to post pictures from my phone-bear with me

 

[Ant]

Try following the arrow:

 

[DownNDirty]

 

[patiodadio]

Tap for a keg ?

 

[Patriot Relics]

Tap for a keg ?

That was my guess as well

 

[DownNDirty]

Not a plumbing part-the hole in the horizontal part doesn't go all the way through.

 

[Patriot Relics]

Not a plumbing part-the hole in the horizontal part doesn't go all the way through.

It's possible that corrosion sealed the opening over time. That T handle certainly looks like a valve to me.

 

[DownNDirty]

What kinds of valves did they have in colonial times?

 

[Simon1]

The spigot for Captain Morgan's rum barrel.

 

[pepperj]

Barrel tap, 4th photo you can see the lines in the part that's hammered into the keg, second photo by the base of your little finger is where the spout would be, but it's snapped off.

 

[villagenut]

the valve is closed, that is why it looks blocked. Probably like a ball valve closure.

 

[stefen]

gas valve...not colonial...wishful thinking

 

[Ant]

 

[Ant]

I think it is a wooden kag tap too, the tap end is striated and tapered, this press in seal marks it as modern as does the composition.

 

[Ant]

I think it is a wooden kag tap too, the tap end is striated and tapered, this press in seal marks it as modern as does the composition.

 

[sutphin]

ITS A TAP FOR A KEG , NICE FIND .......

 

[DownNDirty]

Thanks for all the input-so it's a modern keg tap. Not colonial but still an interesting find.

 

[deldave]

Gas fixtures were common, all had valves of some kind.

 

[Ant]

square handle keg spigot - Google Search