Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl

[Shreckmeister]

Recently dug in Indiana.









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[Tim Crosby]

 Wow! That is really cool.

   Tim

[mark esterly]

tomahawks had screw in bowls?  threads inside the bowl?     part of a lamp would have been my guess but my deck's shy a few cards..

[louieparker]

Could be part of an oil drip device on an early piece of equipment. Or  something similiar .  Can't see it as a pipe bowl.  Just my opinion......LP

[Gun_Nut_73]

My first thought on seeing that, was that it was a 1960's pot pipe bowl.  I remember when such pipes were being sold as modular units to keep the police away.

[Shreckmeister]

I would think the hole is too small to feed lamp wires through and too big for oil dripping.  It was dug at a site where other
indian artifacts, a 1790 coin and some flint tools were found.  Don't crush my dreams   I can rule out the pot pipe.  Here's
another pipe that was dug in the same place.

[45-110]

This "bowl" looks just like the axle lubricant cups on my 1870's huge general store coffee mill by Swift Mill. Mine has knurled caps which screw into the threaded bowl.

[Shreckmeister]

Can you shoot me a pic

[Robert Wolfe]

This is a oil cup from a hit and miss engine. Note that the cap screws into the top of the cup. Unfortunately I suspect you have something like this.

[Shreckmeister]

I think you're right.  A bit disappointing

[hanshi]

I think you're right.  A bit disappointing

Maybe so; but it's still cool.

[Craig Wilcox]

When I saw it was NPT, tapered, in other words, and had a hex nut cast in, I really wondered who had been using old motor parts for a pipe bowl.
Really wish it was a tomahawk pipe.

[Mike Lyons]

Gives you a reason to make a hit and miss engine.  You have the first  part.