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ID This Antique, Please
My youngest took this "thing" to the Antique Show this past Saturday in Atlanta, they couldn't ID it. It's a brass "thing" - stands about 6/8 inches high with a small figurine on top. It appears to be some sort of thermostat. I told him to send me a picture and most likely some of my many internet friends here likely will tell me what it is or could be. Please take a stab at it. Thanks.
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I don't know. but I bet Gizamo has 4 of them.
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It's a rectal thermometer. There's a chair with a hole in the middle that originally came with it. It says "NORMAL" over 70 degree mark. So an ancient alien rectal thermometer.
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I bet it was originally a newel post cap on the front porch of a very fancy Victorian house.
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Early digital thermometer??
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My first thought was that it might have adorned a cast iron stove, but the numbers appear to be too low for that.
I really don't know, but it's pretty cool ! ! ! 
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Can you take it apart?To me it looks like it might be a thermometer.
70=normal?
It might be for humidity... maybe for cigar humidors?
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Doe's it say "made in china for wallymarty" on the bottom?
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Although the pictured item does not show any advertisements, it is billed as an "Antique 1924 Metal Advertising Thermometer", as shown here:
ANTIQUE 1924 METAL ADVERTISING THERMOMETER THERMO DIAL | eBay
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Pete...I'd bid...they could be consecutive serial numbers.... 
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I bet it was originally a newel post cap on the front porch of a very fancy Victorian house.
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This sounds pretty good. Maybe an address goes in that window. Check these out. Maybe it's a variation of one of these mail boxes even though it looks nothing like these.
antique mail box - Google Search
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looks like something from Ruger
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looks like something from Ruger
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Do you think that there's a recall on it?
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I hope you get it, Sip - A good conversation piece.
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Is it a antique automobile radiator cap?
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08-10-2011, 05:43 PM
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It measures the number of words the "significant other" says in one minute while you are trying to watch the ballgame.
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It looks like a wood fired bong.
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