✅ SOLVED Is it a Bowl; Piece of something? Colonial Farm House Find

[Terry Soloman]

Any guess or help is appreciated.

 

[nhbenz]

From an old automatic cattle watering set-up I think

 

[ARC]

Woman's Iron bra...

Left side. :P

 

[Mud Hut]

Woman's Iron bra...

Left side. :P

Great minds think alike ..I was going to suggest a Civil War nipple protector

 

[trapperart]

From an old automatic cattle watering set-up I think

Very well could be

 

[Hughie]

Two of them would be banged together to make the sound of a moving horse.

 

[ARC]

Two of them would be banged together to make the sound of a moving horse.

An African Swallow carrying coconuts ?

Ahhh then...

What would be the rate at which an African Swallow carrying metal coconuts be ? (Monty Python for those who don't know)

heh

 

[Mud Hut]

Can you see any evidence if an attachment point?

 

[Terry Soloman]

Can you see any evidence if an attachment point?

None.

 

[Mud Hut]

None.

hmm.. can't see it being an automatic watering piece then.

 

[diggendirt]

Just a thought how about a peace of a cannon ball.

 

[creskol]

Any guess or help is appreciated.

Maybe it is an iron bowl, Terry:

 

[ARC]

HEY ! thats it !

Its an iron bowl that looks like an iron bowl.

Mark as solved :P

 

[Deft Tones]

It's the forerunner of the tin-foil hat that is the forerunner of the modern aluminum foil hat... for the chronically paranoid.

Or maybe a sponge saturated with brine solution slips between the "bowl" and skull when sitting in a State chair.

 

[Oddjob]

I think NHBENZ is correct. Found a few of these in the Swiss and Austrian Alps.

Last picture it what makes me think so; appears it has some sort of one inch flat stock that was the mounting bracket. Chances are was fixed but the following winter the line froze and the animal knocked it off the fence post.

 

[AU Seeker]

Iron beanie, the propeller has rusted away.

 

[AU Seeker]

From an old automatic cattle watering set-up I think

While this is as good a guess as any, it doesn't appear to look like the old cast iron cattle waterers I could find, unless the top couple of inches have broken away.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Maybe it is an iron bowl, Terry:

I'm going with it! Thank You!

 

[tamrock]

Yeah right. It's kinda like a ceramic bowl, but it's made of iron instead.