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Beautiful brass and copper faucet...

REVIER

REVIER

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...and it's old!

Gotta be from the late 1800's or so, great design and only about 3" tall.
Maybe an old bathroom fixture from the old farm house site I am hunting?

I have been searching the web for info on the manufacturer, CBC is stamped on it but nothing yet, and I have looked at hundreds but I still have seen no images that match this design.
None even close.

Looked cool out of the ground, way better after I tumbled it, took it apart and tumbled it some more.
It is done with the cleaning process, it has just the right look of an antique and it goes on display as is.
The hinge for the handle and the 2 screws that adjust that handle are copper.
It is much better looking in person.

Even the wife says she likes it, and this time I think she really means it.

Sometimes the little odds and ends we dig up can make us as happy as jewelry, relics and coins.
 
It's a pressure relief valve used on pressurized tanks.
 
jabbo said:
It's a pressure relief valve used on pressurized tanks.
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Really?

That makes even more sense...thanks!
 
May be Columbiana Boiler Company of Columbiana, Ohio. Founded 1894 and still in business today.
 
Gandorf said:
May be Columbiana Boiler Company of Columbiana, Ohio. Founded 1894 and still in business today.
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Great tip!
To narrow down a manufacturing date on this thing would be awesome!
 
jabbo said:
It's a pressure relief valve used on pressurized tanks.
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interesting............... and here i was thinking the first thing that came to mind was the first, original design of a toilet float valve. :shrug: GREAT find.
 
Spider, You might be right, maybe it is a float valve from an old toilet.
 
Toilet fill valve might be the winner.
Up closed, down open just like today's all plastic units.
Hard to believe they made such quality parts for everyday items in the home compared to today.
 
Winner ,winner chicken dinner!

With that lead I went online and poked around and that is indeed what this thing is...
A high tank toilet fill valve according to the collector on Etsy selling one just like it from his collection.
He says it is from the 30's, so maybe...or it still might be older than that.

So from an old toilet...Eeeewwwwwww!
But at least it was one of those old style ones with the box up high.

The pics below have two different ones, the one on the right is mine exactly.
 
Well, you better sniff around that location some more! Maybe back in the 30's, some old guy swallowed a bag of his gold coins to keep them from being confiscated by the govt, and died trying to pass them on his brand new high tank crapper!:lmfao:
Mud
 
that is too cool!! and here i was throwing a dart at it, taking in account of the levers and the ratios at the fulcrum. as Mud mentioned, there's no telling what all alse is to be found there. HH <Spider
 
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