✅ SOLVED Lead Ingot

[Hunk-a-lead]

Got this one from a 1920s permission. I suspect its relatively modern but it's rare for me to find lead shaped like this. Wondering if it could be camp lead or if it's more likely to have a construction use.

As always, big thanks and big love from KC!! HH

 

[Almy]

Plumbers had their own gasoline-fuelled lead melting pots at one time. They used the lead for sealing joints in cast iron waste pipe. The ingot looks like what they melted in those pots. I'm old enough to remember seeing this when it was common practice.

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

Plumbers had their own gasoline-fuelled lead melting pots at one time. They used the lead for sealing joints in cast iron waste pipe. The ingot looks like what they melted in those pots. I'm old enough to remember seeing this when it was common practice.

thanks so much for the insight Almy. Really appreciate that