Large Brass

[MonDak]

This has been laying around for a couple years and I never did figure out what it was for.
It was found at an old town site that no longer exists.
1st pic is what I consider the front.
2nd pic the top
3rd pic the back, part of the back is missing.

Almost looks like it could have been a corkscrew for a 10 gal bottle of wine. (kidding)

 

[Dave~UT]

n/t

 

[GoGoGopher]

Awfull rusty for Brass...Is it very heavy?...looks more like a part of a fireplace or stove to me...

HH,

 

[Jim West Pa]

holder with half of the bottom missing. The first two pics show it the way it is designed to sit. It's upside down in the last pic. Gvin it's size, i'd say it held, a framed picture, small book, recipe cards, envelopes of small amounts of out going mail.

 

[daryllpugh]

Looks like part of a dog iron for a fireplace.

 

[JohnnyI]

mondac, you need some better pictures of the inside and the ends of the "legs". It seems the "legs" are each drilled on their ends. They are spaced too close (in pairs) to be legs however, which makes me think they may have had a round pulley between each set, and it moved on a ceiling track "upside down", maybe to suspend a light or lamp? What is the rusted iron on the inside? That will tell a lot.

 

[edjcox]

Hanging lantern top, heat dissapator.
??

somethin akin to this

http://www.antiquelampsupply.com/product/3101

 

[JohnnyI]

Don't know Ed. Maybe we'll know if we get a picture of the inside where all that rust sits. It does seem though that this gizmo ran on a track, based on the drilled holes and the narrow spacing. Not unlike the arrangements you see on much larger overhead chain hoists which can move around on an "I" track.

 

[Cz7boy]

n/t