✅ SOLVED spigot

[ResurrectedVirginia]

I was hoping that some one can date this. It is obviously a spigot or barrel tap. I found it near a civil war camp mixed in with a bunch of broken glass, pottery, and junk metal beneath a large tree. It is solid brass. The name says " ANDERS FRARY&CLARK "

 

[DigIron2]

from what I see, they where a house ware company who operated from 1865 till they sold company to General Electric co.in 1965. i would say old house spigot.nice find

 

[surf]

It's from Landers, Frary & Clark.

"...In 1862 the small but prosperous company made another of the many acquisitions that were to mark its history and growth in future years. It acquired the firm of Frary, Clark & Company, of Meriden Connecticut, the company name changed to Landers, Frary & Clark, which it retained for the next full century of its existence.

Probably the most important item introduced around this period was a household scale, "the first product designed particularly for the American housewife," White explained in his speech.

The company and the extent of its line continued to grow...now it had added meat choppers and sausage stuffers, screw eyes and strap hooks, door handles and floor scrapers, molasses gates and faucets, meat hooks and harness hooks, cast iron match boxes and curry combs, fancy brass hat hooks and eyes with porcelain knob ends--and even toys…" The Saga of Landers, Frary and Clark

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[ResurrectedVirginia]

Thanks and lol maybe that's why I couldn't find much, the " L " in " LANDERS " is not present on my item.

 

[nhbenz]

Jeez, that Saga of them kinda' skipped over the fine trench knives they made in WWI.

 

[surf]

WWI US 1918 LF&C Mark I Trench Knife​