Railroad Lantern top?

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PAslawslayer

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• Jan 3, 2022

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Found this on the site where I found the PRR lock. Could this be a smooshed RR lantern top?

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• Jan 4, 2022

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Looks more like it was a Tobacco or Tea tin.

 

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HuntinDog said:

Looks more like it was a Tobacco or Tea tin.

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I believe you are right.

 

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I'd go with the lantern top. Knurled top piece, extra ring where gass fit.

 

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Those are good possibilities, but as an engineer and former career machinist, I have to say that you don’t put labor in making a threaded and knurled knob unless it’s meant to be turned often. This piece I found has those attributes; and I wonder if tea tin knobs aren’t just a riveted fit and shaped for grip while pulling in a linear fashion. I


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• Jan 5, 2022

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You didn't say the nob was threaded... so might not be for Tobacco or Tea.
But putting a solid lid on a gas or kerosene lamp would smother the flame.
Unless you are thinking of a different type of lamp and still, then what would the threaded nobs purpose be.
Interesting.....

 

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Not a lantern top. No vent holes for the heat to escape and allow for draft.

 

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There wouldn’t be vent holes in the very top of a lantern lid, but below it somewhere to keep it from drafting directly to the center of the handle.

I’m certainly not stuck on this being a lantern piece, it was just a “could it be”. This thing may very well be a copper or brass lid for tea, tobacco, or any other container. Part of the fun is trying to figure it out.

Keep the ideas coming.


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This has got me stumped. I have been searching high and low for what this could be. There is several old Coleman lanterns that look like this but they have a hole in lid and a little nut that goes on bolt that goes through lid. But that knob looks so familiar. But there is a lot of lateens out there. I’ll keep looking. This forum is one of my favorites. It really gets me to thinking.