Gas valves

[Always..Lookin]

Pretty cruddy so I ran them thru my tumbler.

 

[Bottlecap4U]

great collection!

 

[JCR TX]

Very nice. A sad rebuke to our mundane modern world. Even ordinary items used to convey beauty.

 

[Always..Lookin]

Very nice. A sad rebuke to our mundane modern world. Even ordinary items used to convey beauty.

They just don't make things the way they used to.

 

[fwcrawford]

Pretty cruddy so I ran them thru my tumbler.

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Nice assortment!
Would these have been used with calcium carbide gas?

 

[Odanscoils]

Really decorative pieces. Nice

 

[IDXMonster]

Wow that’s a crazy cool ornate lineup there! You must hunt a fair number of old homesites to have that many, I’ve never even found one, but also hunt only public ground. Very nice, beautiful pieces! All Victorian era I gather?

 

[Always..Lookin]

Nice assortment!
Would these have been used with calcium carbide gas?

No idea what type gas was used.

 

[Always..Lookin]

Wow that’s a crazy cool ornate lineup there! You must hunt a fair number of old homesites to have that many, I’ve never even found one, but also hunt only public ground. Very nice, beautiful pieces! All Victorian era I gather?

They came from two old home sites,mid 1800's.

 

[fwcrawford]

No idea what type gas was used.

There is an old house site near me that an old lady told me about saying she use to stay there with relatives.
She told me they had gas lamps mounted to the walls and were fed from pipes that lead to an outbuilding where a device was that produced acetylene gas from calcium carbide.
Since you state they were found from 1800’s house sites, I would say that is the same type of system they had.
Very nice finds.
If I ever detect that house site, I may get lucky and find one or two myself.

 

[laplander]

Gas lights would be the equivalent of lamps in a house today. They were quite decorative as these are. The tumbler was a great idea!

 

[Nauti]

Those are fabulous.

 

[Monkeys Uncle]

An added value..."made to last a lifetime".

 

[IDXMonster]

An added value..."made to last a lifetime".

Thats actually a huge draw for me to this hobby….things of the past many times were very quality, such as gold items and especially silver coins/items, along with items such as above made of brass, copper, bronze….. To see a rotten zinc that’s been in the ground 6 years as opposed to a seated coin that’s been sitting there 135+….that’s QUALITY, and definitely meant to last. People CRAFTED stuff back then, now we just push a button and a huge press comes down and stamps whatever out of pot metal. It’s pretty sad if you want the truth.

 

[tab-nabit]

Well that's different and really nice. Looks like the tumbler did a swell job.
I think I found 2 similar some years back but tossed them not knowing what it might have looked like cleaned up.