Thimble sized thing engraved

[winslow]

Looks like silver but reads on the lower end of detector. Between nickel and aluminum.

Found among a bunch of square nails in woods loaded with glory holes from gold rush era. The engraving is intriguing.

Engraving: A. Kuiin & L. Nax PAT. July 5, 1864

There are two dots over the u in Kuiin.

 

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[cedarratt]

Top to a cigar Holder?

 

[72cheyenne]

Top to a cigar Holder?

This is very possible. Here is a design patent on a tobacco pipe from these two guys.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=je...gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false

 

[winslow]

Two great ideas! Nice research on the patent.

I found another piece of something that was threaded as well. Threads disn't match up so I'm thinking they aren't related. Found within 10 ft of each other.

 

[dozer dan]

looks to be a spindle cap or grease cap of sorts. was it found around applegate?

or

screw on jigger cap to a flask? try filling it with a liquid just to see how much it will hold.

 

[mile-ender]

Close 72cheyenne, but this is the link - http://www.google.com/patents?id=IB...selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q=kuhn&f=false - looks probably like (D) on the drawing.

 

[72cheyenne]

Close 72cheyenne, but this is the link - http://www.google.com/patents?id=IB...selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q=kuhn&f=false - looks probably like (D) on the drawing.

Good link mile-ender. I really don't think the item in question is a pipe bowl, but I think that it is possibly tobacco related. I haven't found anything with that exact patent date on it, so.......

Kuhn and Nax possibly were in the pipe and tobacco business.

 

[mile-ender]

Close 72cheyenne, but this is the link - http://www.google.com/patents?id=IB...selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q=kuhn&f=false - looks probably like (D) on the drawing.

I haven't found anything with that exact patent date on it, so.......

The patent date is right there on the drawing the link brings you to, with a description of exactly what the piece is just below

 

[winslow]

Close 72cheyenne, but this is the link - http://www.google.com/patents?id=IB...selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q=kuhn&f=false - looks probably like (D) on the drawing.

You guys are regular Sherlock's! Looks like I had the name wrong. I read it as Kuiin but it is certainly Kuhn. The cross on the H was worn away.

The description of the patent describes recepticle D as "a cap that screws in to the lower end of the chamber piece". That's what it is. Great research!!

 

[72cheyenne]

Close 72cheyenne, but this is the link - http://www.google.com/patents?id=IB...selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q=kuhn&f=false - looks probably like (D) on the drawing.

I haven't found anything with that exact patent date on it, so.......

The patent date is right there on the drawing the link brings you to, with a description of exactly what the piece is just below

Sheesh, that's what I get for not looking at the stuff closer. I think I'll go sit in the corner now.

Right on mile-ender on the ID.

 

[Mark S.]

The "two dots" above the "u" are an umlaut - pronounced oomlau. It is a German mark for a certain pronunciation of the letter U. My name originally had it, as did many others of German descent, but was dropped when the ancestors came to the US.