Old Plantation Brass Plant Duster Green Patina

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I was going to a old plantation farm dump, walked a familiar trail, when I saw the green patina of this large brass plant duster on the hill side. Looks like the label may to around some where, the only marking is a BP. [attachment=10-7-15 006a.JPG] [attachment=10-7-15 005a.JPG] [attachment=10-7-15 003a.JPG]
 

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Another view of the nozzle end![attachment=10-7-15 004a.JPG]
 

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What the heck ! ! ! I thought this was a BOTTLE forum ! Just kidding, that is an interesting item. I like finding that kind of stuff almost as much as finding bottles. Almost. Jim
 

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Haha! Jim, well I found this med too, just to keep the topic current!
 

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Why this isn't broke, because most of them was! [attachment=10-7-15 007a.JPG][attachment=10-7-15 008a.JPG]
 

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It wasn't broken because its a California Fig Syrup! They are always the whole one and the rare one beside is always broken.[:(]
 

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When do you figure the plant-duster is from?It reminds me of a mud-find (near creek) I made behind my house of what I'm told is an oil-pump.
 

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Both grand parents used these in the garden , circa 1960's , when I was a kid. I remember grand dad, dusting tomatoes, with Sevin, , sulfur , or Ortho Klor something. At the same time, complaining about the guv'ment banning DDT, that eagles eat fish, and not cut worms, and having to have screens on the windows . That type sprayer has been around at least since the 1930's in one form or another, but may be much earlier. The one I found appears to be 1950-60's vintage!
 

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Pretty neat. DDT went into the water by run-off, was ingested by minute organisms that get ingested by other organisms that get ingested and such until the concentrations of the chemical stored in the fat-tissues of the apex predators-- in this case, the eagle, the top of the food-chain-- was so high that its effects became clearly known-- in this case, causing the shells of eggs to be so thin that, when mama goes to incubate, she crushed them and thus few to no new eagles could replace the old generations. And thus we slaughtered the bird we supposedly hold so dear.
 

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