New here, I found this...

[MadJack]

I purchased a large tract of land the used to have a hunting cabin and a still on it many years ago. When putting the new driveway/road in, we uncovered a rather large bottle dump and after dragging trees over and driving over this spot, I found this little jewel!

Can anyone identify it? (please)

MadJack

[MadJack]

edited to add;
This is not a bottle. I believe it is some kind of blown medical glass. When filled with water (liquid), it has to flow through the little "S" shaped thing to get to the center chamber, then out the bottom. It could be some kind of IV drip device but I don't really know. [end of edit]


I live in Maine, not far south of Augusta. I am not a hardcore bottle guy, my interest is gold prospecting but a few people keep telling me to dig this site!
We used an excavator to stump out the new driveway/road and uncovered the dump. It is nearly 200 feet by 30 or 40 feet. I have found some really big insulators (central maine power), some clorox bottles from the 20's, one lysol bottle that still had the cork in it and a pile of other stuff. And I'm not really digging it, I'm just kind of kicking at stuff sticking out of the ground while I'm cutting and hauling firewood.

Anyone interested in digging here is welcome! I would rather see some of this stuff saved than go to waste.

MadJack

[rip]

Hello mad jack ! I'm thinkin its for measuring humidity,or forcasting the weather.bet paapy could tell ya !HH

[PAPPY]

It's not complete but it is the inside of a Barometer...Kinda novel in a way. The barometer came filled with colored water and it at one time sit on a stand. When the barometric pressure went up the water in the chamber would go down and when the barometric pressure was down the water in the chamber would rise....PAPPY

[MadJack]

Thanks Pappy!
Any idea where I would find a picture of the whole thing?
Any idea when it was made?
Any idea what it is worth?

[PAPPY]

JACK, I'll try to locate a pic of one and post it for you....PAPPY

[Wyatt Earp]

That's a doggone light bulb guys.....the base is gone, but I'd bet a dollar to a donut that it's s decorative bulb...made to resemble a flame.....like the ones in my front porch lites.


OK ,maybe not....but it sure looks like one...minus any metal parts.

Wyatt

[MadJack]

That was my first thought when I found it but there is no 'curl' at the pointy end. The openings are clean and smooth, no signs of anything eve being attached.

I'm still looking for answers, thanks for the suggestions though!

Jack

[bdahunter]

It may be some sort of old scientific glassware. The weatherglass that Pappy referred to looks like this one that hangs on my livingroom wall. I'm always monitoring the weather through radar and satellite imagery because it is important to my job and to my hunts but when all the modern technology fails (like in a hurricane) the old weatherglass keeps working just fine.

Cheers,

BDA

[anne]

Whatever it is a looks good, I would want to keep that.