✅ SOLVED Test your skills on this one! Spent years trying to ID this.

[musclecar]

I found this in Alaska about 10 years ago, and have never been able to ID it. It is an aluminum piece, about 3 inches square. It has 15 teeth and is numbered 1-15. There is a stop preventing it from spinning freely. The back has two tabs that may have been used to mount it. ANY GUESSES?

Thanks,

MC

PS The quarter used for size was found yesterday! 1935S Yeah!

 

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[trikikiwi]

Hi Ivan,
with respect, I quote you

"we need a prize to motive folks to "find" absolute "photographic or other prove without doubt" what this breast is"

Lost in the annals of ancient posts, is my offer of a bottle of fine New Zealand wine, I will send to the "winner"
(aka - 'the releaser from misery, of thousands')
that irresistible reward was compounded by the addition of an offer of $100 worth of fine Chicago delicate meats,
obviously from an equally frustrated 'guesser'.

Would you like to add another prize?

Cheers, Mike

 

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[ivan salis]

all I got on hand is a rather nice 44 walker half---silver is good---Ivan

 

[BioProfessor]

I want to know how much he wants for it. Maybe I can buy it, beat it into an unrecognizable blob, cut it into small pieces, melt it, beat it into small discs, throw them in a river, flush a few of them, scatter them in the park, run over them with my car, eat a few of them, and it will be over.

FINALLY!!!

Daryl

 

[ivan salis]

it refuses to DIE DIE DIE!!!!!

 

[BioProfessor]

That's why we have to figure out a way to kill it.

Daryl

 

[BioProfessor]

Put me down for $5.

Daryl

 

[martyh]

This is a (animal) cage counter (lab use). For a box wire cage, two longer tabs clip to cage . Other side clips to cage too; larger bent metal tab prevents bending two smaller v-tabs when clipping to cage. Two small holes top + bottom are for safety wiring to cage. I just signed up to this web site or I could have save everyone all the anxiety.

 

[Old Dog]

Martyh,

Welcome to TN,
Welcome also to the longest running thread, LOL.

GOOD GUESS......?

 

[ivan salis]

post a photo of a like one in use or a catalog or even another one just like it---it'll be worth your while --really---Ivan

 

[trikikiwi]

post a photo of a like one in use or a catalog or even another one just like it---it'll be worth your while --really---Ivan

Hi and welcome Martyh,
Believe Ivan

Cheers, Mike

 

[faaus]

I found this in Alaska about 10 years ago, and have never been able to ID it. It is an aluminum piece, about 3 inches square. It has 15 teeth and is numbered 1-15. There is a stop preventing it from spinning freely. The back has two tabs that may have been used to mount it. ANY GUESSES?

Thanks,

MC

PS The quarter used for size was found yesterday! 1935S Yeah!

I believe that this is one of the many decoders which were issued by radio and tv shows. Using it (with the missing key) enabled the owner to decipher coded messages given during the show. Orphan Annie was one of several popular shows that offered such devices.

faaus

 

[bowser]

try another forum the more the merrier

 

[gmstreet]

OKAY, I'M NEW... BUT HERE'S MY SUGGESTION.
IT WAS HIT ON BEFORE A LITTLE...
IT IS A BILLIARDS BALL COUNTER FROM A COIN OPERATED TABLE.
YOU PUT YOUR MONEY IN, SHOVE IN THE COIN PUSH AND THE DIAL RESETS, AS EACH BALL PASSES THE COUNTER THE DIAL COUNTS THEM OFF, WHEN IT REACHES 15 THE MECHANISM CLOSES SO ANY BALLS THAT ENTER THE TABLE THROUGH THE POCKETS DON'T ROLL COMPLETELY BACK THROUGH.

GREG

 

[Old Dog]

Greg,

That has to be the best Idea yet, at least that I have heard.

OD

 

[piggman1]

It looks like me and you are in the same boat. We have found items that don't belong in this world. Man was never suposed to find them, and we did. Now we are resposible for driving people crazy, breaking up families, and general lunacy in the streets. And to top it off, neither one of us is any closer to knowing what we have than when we started. I think they need a special forum for Most difficult to identify, or Not of this world. Surely if we are patient enough and don't die first, someone will identify what we have found.

 

[BioProfessor]

Maybe there are 15 Piggman nuts. Once collected and assembled around the single turn, count to 15 sprockety thing, it turns all the nuts simultaneously in the same direction and they open. Inside are all the pieces to a map to find the secret KGS treasure.

Daryl

 

[piggman1]

I believe it, and I think the professor is on to something.

 

[dg39]

I was the one who found the brass acorn in a Sears Catalogue. I'm still lookin for this one.
Humm, maybe Mongomery-Wards?
DG

 

[Angelo]

Bravo, Stoney56!

http://www.antique-watch.com/des/w4437.html

Okay, all you Acornites... say goodnight, Gracie!

Did I miss another Brass Acorn other than the one PBK nailed?

Tony

 

[ivan salis]

maybe its a brass acorn counter?