in the interst of providing something useful..... does it have a patent number on it. if so you can run the number and find out what it is--along with a ton of other info.
So I'm guessing this means you don't have it in your possession? Which means this post is worthless. Oh wait, you did post a picture, my bad.
The ones that said it was a lamp were on the right track, it is actually a failed invention....the 2 arms held a candle, and when you pulled the chain to turn the light on, it raised the already lit candle out of a cardboard box. and when you lowered it, it put the candle back in the box and closed the box lid. It was designed to save matches, but the factory that was building these, burnt down shortly after they hired the first quality control manager, who tested it for the first time....
This is an old lamp part, very early dimmer type. There was an electrical spring between the two holders, think potentsionometer (sp), pulling the "cord" would move the electricail connectors, witch are not there, on the spring, also not there, thus increasing or decreasing resistance in the coil, spring, thereby making the lamp brighter or dimmer.
It might be from totally outside our part of the techno box... There usetawas something vaguely similar in a closet in my Grandparents' house; I asked my Grandfather what it was, he sent me to my Grandmother. It was indeed hers...a dressmaking tool designed to mark a chosen level on the inside of a skirt so it could be hemmed and the hem would be level to the floor! That was totally outside of my expectations for sure. My Grandfather's odd objects generally had an agricultural bent, usually doing something to a large herbivore that gave me the willies. I do not remember details, but the dressmaking do-dad was a lot like that... It would now be a very valuable thing on the HAMB, enabling rockabillies to get their jean cuffs perzackly right, within a hundredth of an inch of level from the drive-in parking lot.
"It would now be a very valuable thing on the HAMB, enabling rockabillies to get their jean cuffs perzackly right, within a hundredth of an inch of level from the drive-in parking lot." That's greatness Bruce
It's a 'bullshitometer'. Or maybe it's to test one's patience. Stick ya balls in the clamp and get someone to 'yank ya chain'.
Antique water closet flush valve. Float and valve are missing. Somewhere there is a very messed-up toilet, also (thankfully) missing.
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