CW or not?

[3RINGER]

Dug this in Murfreesboro TN, lots of CW items have came out of here but I've never seen a item that looks like this before. Has anyone dug anything like it or could tell me what it went to....better yet is it even the time frame I'm looking for ??









Thx

 

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[NOLA_Ken]

looks like part of a clock, or some similar type of mechanism. There's probably some way to estimate the age by how it was made but I have no idea

 

[coinman123]

Clock part, I found an old circa 1900 alarm clock that looked like it had fallen into a blender than into a garbage disposal, afterwords hit with a sledgehammer. It had a very similar part in it. Being machine-made due to perfect teeth, overall sharp perfection, and the "X" shaped frame, it is probably from the late 1800's to maybe around the 1910's, after that electric clocks started to phase out wind-up clocks.

Very neat find, Coinman123,

 

[Tony in SC]

Too heavy for a clock part. It's a magneto gear from an old crank telephone. Tony

 

[Pointman]

Too heavy for a clock part. It's a magneto gear from an old crank telephone. Tonu

I would have to agree. It is too heavy for a clock part, but I am not an expert. I found something similar but it was straight and looked real good after I ran it through the tumbler for a few hours to clean it up.

Also, it would lend itself to a crank if the middle is wood.

 

[3RINGER]

Agree on the too heavy for the clock part, have dug clock gears and those were much thinner and less bulk than this thing. The teeth are more like the edge on a coin for grip than teeth for a gear. My luck I've found the first run of water valves from the early 1900's lol

Thanks for the input guys