If you know any of the items in these photographs,
please email the Twinsburg Historical Society.
Be sure to mention the number of the item.
Holes seem to be for a hand
seems to have some yarn left on it
top and bottom look the same
there is no way to get inside
puffed up slightly
maybe a float of some kind?
made of brass - fairly heavy
initials on back - B and H - reversed?
9/17/10 - GG says - appears to be a bracket for a kerosene or oil lamp arm.
It would be screwed to the wall and the arm would fit
into it and could be moved from side to side.
The B and H stands for Bradley and Hubbard
a company that was a large producer
of kerosene lamps in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
It might be brass plated steel, check it with a magnet.
10/12/10 - Richard Stamm, Curator, Smithsonian Institution
"The photos you sent show a cast iron mounting plate for a
kerosene lamp bracket made by the Bradley and Hubbard Manufacturing Company ca.
1870-1890. The original copper or brass plating is visible on the back. The mark
on the back is identical to one found on our web page with the exception that
the ampersand was omitted between the B and the H to accommodate the screw hole.
Although it is correct to call the object a mounting plate, original patent
documents for similar items referred to it as the “base” for the lamp bracket"
WM - I had the picture upside down - now you can see the ampersand, and the letters are not backwards. duh !!!
fairly heavy
reverse shows that it stands away
from the surface it rests on - about 1/2 inch?
4/8/2009 - WK says it is an early "wrench" -
late 1800s or early 1900s.
Thought to be used by blacksmiths on buggy wheels.