Odd, cup-shaped small items? SEED OR CORN DRILL MACHINE PART

[DavidBeard]

The other odd items I found today where these small cup-shaped, long-handled small things - two of them only a few feet apart.
They look like iron but they're not, pretty heavy for their size so thinking old copper alloy (Bronze-age please if you will!)
They're about 3cm long, top of 'cup' around 9mm, tapering to around 6mm, indented top and bottom, 8.3g and 7.3g
Could they be a small measure for something precious or perhaps a mold for something
Here are the pics:




Any idea? Thanks

 

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[DavidBeard]

Re: Odd, cup-shaped small items?

...I would say apothecary measure or type of candle snuffer...

Apothecary - Just been watching 'Police, Camera, Action' on TV - someone got a bag of pills out - had me thinking.
Could these be Pill / Tablet molds - I wonder if the smaller indented curve is exactly half volume/measure of the larger one.... I try out tomorrow.
When did we start taking medicine in Pill-form in the UK anybody?

 

[Mackaydon]

Re: Odd, cup-shaped small items?

Measures to weigh the weight of gold dust without a scale

 

[hammered]

Re: Odd, cup-shaped small items?

Measures to weigh the weight of gold dust without a scale

Interesting find David , and I was thinking along the same lines as Mac. Small amounts of gold or silver measured out to get consistancy in weight for coinage, just a guess though.

hammered

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Odd, cup-shaped small items?

Part of a late Victorian early 1900s seed drilling equipment.

 

[RPG]

Re: Odd, cup-shaped small items?

Part of a late Victorian early 1900s seed drilling equipment.

could you elaborate just a little?

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Odd, cup-shaped small items?

Part of a late Victorian early 1900s seed drilling equipment.

could you elaborate just a little?

Part of the mechanism which helped plant the seeds in ploughed land.

 

[Breezie]

Re: Odd, cup-shaped small items?

I'm going partially with Spooky on apothecary measure, but saying it's an antique opium measure. Breezie

 

[DavidBeard]

Re: Odd, cup-shaped small items?

Part of a late Victorian early 1900s seed drilling equipment.

I don't want them then I'll bury them back in the same field next time I'm up there for them others to find in a few more years!
I thought they were much older

 

[DavidBeard]

Re: Odd, cup-shaped small items?


A machine similar to this perhaps. Similar looking parts on this one.
Thanks Crusader.

 

[Breezie]

Re: Odd, cup-shaped small items?

Part of a late Victorian early 1900s seed drilling equipment.

could you elaborate just a little?

Part of the mechanism which helped plant the seeds in ploughed land.

These items look older than Victorian, and they look handmade. If they were seed cup planters on a machine as pictured, then they would be machine made, thus identical. These items are not identical, and again, look handmade. Breezie

 

[DavidBeard]

Re: Odd, cup-shaped small items?

Part of a late Victorian early 1900s seed drilling equipment.

could you elaborate just a little?

Part of the mechanism which helped plant the seeds in ploughed land.

These items look older than Victorian, and they look handmade. If they were seed cup planters on a machine as pictured, then they would be machine made, thus identical. These items are not identical, and again, look handmade. Breezie

Hoping that you're right Breezie - Yes they look handmade - These early machines were handmade too, they go back as early as the 1700's just found out, so they could be part of an older model. Will make more enquiries when I get the chance.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Odd, cup-shaped small items?

A machine similar to this perhaps. Similar looking parts on this one.
Thanks Crusader.

Good picture, I wondered how it worked. (never interested enough to research it)