first find ever

[chong2]

when i was little i would alwats go off into the desert,and find places i would try to remember to revist when i finally got my first metal detector.4 years ago, well the day i got one i hiked back through the desert to a campfire ring was. well here is my first find, at first i thought it was a latern top, but it is way too heavy, some people told me it looks like a stove vent, the problem is it was found in the middle of nowhere, in the desert foot hills, maybe some settlers brought thier stove on a wagon?

 

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[mojjax]

Looks like a flue vent for an old coal or wood stove .
mojjax

 

[d2]

It came off of the bottom of a wood or coal stove. You would adjust the air intake with it when starting a fire are slowing it down when you went to bed at nite so your wood would not burn up to fast...d2

 

[chong2]

so i was kinda close, do u all know the timeframe in which these were used?

 

[hasbeen]

Similiar ones are still used on wood burning stoves.

hasbeen

 

[PBK]

http://www.goodtimestove.com/heating_stoves/potbelly/globe_potbelly_sr-pb1138.html#

 

[chong2]

well looks like we figured it out, thank u all for the time, still gets me how it was so far out in the desert
have a goood one!

 

[Angelo]

Thinking, since the nuts and bolts are still attached that perhaps it was a replacement part and was lost on the way to it's destination.

Tony