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Hey Marg of the Mysterious objects,

Another good one, but i gots to ask you to try focusing on the object.

Sometimes, when lining up your shot, your handy digital camera focuses on something other than what you are trying to photograph. If I'm not seeing a good focus, i stick a finger into the frame, and often that will refocus.

Also having camera in close-up mode (the one with the little tulip icon) seems to help on smalls.

What's the bottom look like? Are you getting any kind of whistle vibe?

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I'm thinking the pie birds are a bit different.
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oops, sorry, was using my phone as a camera cause my house ate my camera. and the lens on the phone takes alot of scratches in my pocket. I do have weird stuff dont I? my badge of honor. margs WEIRD!!

BTW I started digging when I was about a year and a half. my parents dug the old ghost towns in Nevada and California and tied me to a tree to keep me out of the wells, etc. they gave me a spoon and let me dig, they said i found stuff occasionally.

my 91 year old dad still talks about his digging partner finding in a privy, a very thin glass bottle, he said champagne, that was shaped like a ladies hand. perfectly intact. I search on and off for something like it with no luck. you guys ever hear of something similar?
 

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surfaceone? is your top pic, the brown bird, is that a whistle? if so, with mine I am going to lean towards that.
 

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[;)] Kinda looks like a duck onna nest, and I believe your correct a pie steam release device........
I'm thinking pie bird also. It's an unusual form though. The hole in the top could be for some sort of bud vase but I doubt it.
 

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how could someone throw this little dog into the cistern too? just under two inches. the odd part is the hole in the paw. I guess for a flower. he looks so contrite I guess he'd be bringing a flower.

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Not for sure and cant really tell about the other part but I think this is a part for "Nob & Tube" wiring. I'd say the other part was an insulator but the metal part I cant fit in! Is there a hole in it that may have been used to nail or screw to a 2x4?

ORIGINAL: timekiller

I see spark plug was mentioned.It does look like that as well.But I've never seen one with a aluminum bottom like that.All the old ones I find never have much left being made of iron.Looks like aluminum would melt screwed in the head of a engine.Also looks like it would strip out easy.Below is how mine always come out looking of that age.

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Hey Roy,

Pete / timekiller's spark plug, is, well, a spark plug. [8D] The metal housing is gone.

Nobs & tubes look like this:

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little 2.25" owl poison, with stopper and applying wand, cistern

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what went in these? got a ton of them on the property in NY.

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