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Griffin Radiator Cap - 1/17/2008 10:34:29 AM    cobaltbot Posts: 3878 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline I finally got formal permission for the woods near Charlie's house.  Yesterday at lunch I dug this Griffin radiator cap I'm assuming was made by the Griffin Radiator Company but not sure when or for what.  It's in rough shape and missing a wing I'm trying to find but an interesting thing to pull out of the dirt. Attachment (1) _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... Post #: 1

RE: Griffin Radiator Cap - 1/17/2008 12:15:37 PM    towhead Posts: 2689 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline Griffin, a mythical bird or maybe creature....anyway, there is one on EB right now....might wanna see what it goes for.... http://www.find-deal.com/search.php?search=griffin+radiator+cap  (in reply to cobaltbot) Post #: 2

RE: Griffin Radiator Cap - 1/17/2008 12:50:50 PM    cobaltbot Posts: 3878 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline Thanks Julie, I did see that one, slightly different model but the same thing.  Not much info, was at $31 last I looked. _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to towhead) Post #: 3

RE: Griffin Radiator Cap - 1/17/2008 1:13:47 PM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline I am pretty sure that is part of a motometer. That would be a temp guagr now a days. I'm am not sure what car it came on or if it was an after market piece. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to towhead) Post #: 4

RE: Griffin Radiator Cap - 1/17/2008 3:26:09 PM    towhead Posts: 2689 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline Maybe if you know what it is....or who...Adonis, Mercury, a Knight, etc., you could find it here-towards bottom of page:  http://www.donsommer.com/aa/catalog6.html Unfortunately no pix though....you'd have to guess and then maybe try to find a pic.... < Message edited by towhead -- 1/17/2008 3:29:49 PM > (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 5

RE: Griffin Radiator Cap - 1/17/2008 6:58:57 PM    cobaltbot Posts: 3878 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline I think its a Griffin or Gryphon.  That's quite a list and there is a 1928 Chevy Gryphon listed but I think those are all hood ornaments. A motometer huh.  Here's Wikipedia's def of Griffin: For other uses, see Griffin (disambiguation). Statue of a griffin at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. An unusually naturalistic depiction of a griffin by Sir John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A very early appearance of gryphons, dating from before 2000 BCE, two of them shown in comapny with the Sumerian deity Ningizzida.The griffin, griffon or gryphon[1] (from Old French grifon[2]) is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. As the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle the king of the birds, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature.[3] In antiquity it was a symbol of divine power and a guardian of the divine.[4] Most contemporary illustrations give the griffin the forelegs of an eagle, with an eagle's legs and talons, although in some older illustrations it has a lion's forelimbs; it generally has a lion's hindquarters, however. Its eagle's head is conventionally given prominent ears; these are sometimes described as the lion's ears, but are often elongated (more like a horse's), and are sometimes feathered. Some writers describe the tail as a serpent, in the manner of a chimera.[citation needed] Infrequently, a griffin is portrayed without wings (or a wingless eagle-headed lion is identified as a griffin); in 15th-century and later heraldry such a beast may be called a male griffin, an alce or a keythong. In heraldry, a griffin always has aquiline forelimbs; the beast with leonine forelimbs is distinguished as the opinicus. _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to towhead) Post #: 6

RE: Griffin Radiator Cap - 1/17/2008 9:45:18 PM    madman Posts: 10364 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hey steve very nice ,  youve got a nack for finding very interesting things,  always look forward to yer posts mike (in reply to cobaltbot) Post #: 7

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