Serving Platter and Refinds

steelheadwill · Mar 2, 2011

Serving Platter and 'Refinds'

Headed back to my truck with my best find in my coat pocket, a Handblown blue bottle, slipped on some road ice & smashed it to bits :'(

no bloodshed

Made it home with a large copper platter, attached brass handles & trim, no makers mark, doesn't show signs of being plated.
Another old brass thermostat.
Another coin bank, Almost a duplicate of one found a while back, different bank & style, but almost identicle, inside the mud were 5 cylinders of a hard material
in coin sizes :icon_scratch:

Another large brass tag with Anchor & "CR"
A whatsit, brass end pieces with flexible tubing.
reminds me of the 1920s Riess water pipe shown, but maybe part of a 'medical/health' device. :dontknow:

Better Finds Coming !!
thanks for looking & HH :thumbsup:

BobinSouthVA · Mar 2, 2011

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Wow cool finds. That little bank is pretty neat.

Maybe the cylindrical things were just some kind of place holders until coins were put in it? :dontknow:

MaineRelic · Mar 2, 2011

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I like the brass valve tags with the anchor stamp ! The platter is nice too ! Good finds again Herbie ! M.R.

Bunker · Mar 2, 2011

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Very cool finds. You are probably right, a lot more stuff to find there! Sorry about the blue bottle.
Thanks for posting,
Bunker

mountainplayer · Mar 2, 2011

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That last pic....Victorian bong? :headbang:

MP

Kenosha Kid · Mar 2, 2011

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mountainplayer said:
That last pic....Victorian bong?

MP

Bong or hookah; guess it depends on what you smoked :laughing7:

The coin banks are dated to about 1910-ish.

Nice finds !

september · Mar 2, 2011

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Nice finds! :icon_thumright:

artyfacts · Mar 2, 2011

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Looks like you had a hookah of a good time. Sorry the bottle didn't make it to the truck. What are the odds

Nice digs, I like that silly marble... Arty

steelheadwill · Mar 2, 2011

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artyfacts said:
Looks like you had a hookah of a good time. Sorry the bottle didn't make it to the truck. What are the odds Nice digs, I like that silly marble... Arty

Thanks All :thumbsup:

Came down off the snowbank at 4:30, took a step, & boom! shovel,
Etrac, & bucket of finds go flying

had the bottle in my hoodie pocket, was disappointed, but happily didn't injure myself or the Etrac.
The Hookah/bong is as much a mystery as the 'whatsit' dug items,
I included it because of similarity in the tubing and fittings.
Stamped 'Reiss Premier Pipes', A popular maker of conventional pipes, able to find a lot of info and regular Reiss smoking pipes for sale, but not one reference on web searches, pipe collectors websites etc, about a Reiss 'water pipe' or 'hookah' ever existing :icon_scratch:

Anyone seen or heard of this?
good day & best digs to You All :thumbsup:

steelheadwill · Mar 2, 2011

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BobinSouthVA said:
Wow cool finds. That little bank is pretty neat.

Maybe the cylindrical things were just some kind of place holders until coins were put in it?

Thanks Bob, probably the case, when dug, this bank was almost completely encased im black iron remains, I think it's base was iron & had spring mechanisms for holding the coins in place, have a total of 5 dug brass coin banks, every one of them pried open

hoping the next one will be packed with Silver :laughing7: