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Title: Help with identifying.
Post by: JTtheChameleon on March 22, 2009, 01:01:03 PM: Okay so I found this thing in my attic, not sure what it is. I don't know if its an antique anything I just want to know what it is because its been bothering me(I'm a little OCD sometimes). Anyways its this little doodad, there was about four of them of different sizes small to big. Are they just decorative or did they serve a purpose. There seems to be wear on the bottoms, so perhaps they were more then a decoration? Anyways i'm stumped! Ideas welcome!

Theres also a stamp on the side its kind of faded and says monument, theres a picture of it. :)
Title: Re: Help with identifying.
Post by: Texasbadger on March 23, 2009, 06:18:37 AM: How about early tops type toys,,,is there a groove for wrapping a string around and spinning when you pull the string? Plumb bobs?
Title: Re: Help with identifying.
Post by: KC on March 23, 2009, 11:17:29 AM: I would stick with the plumb bob idea...but there aren't any holes or way to suspend. Monument is a tool company that has been around for a very, very long time and does make plumb bobs. (One of my grandfather's was a carpenter and had lots of tools marked Monument.)

Ideas?
Title: Re: Help with identifying.
Post by: JTtheChameleon on March 23, 2009, 04:07:34 PM: Quote from: Texasbadger on March 23, 2009, 06:18:37 AM
How about early tops type toys,,,is there a groove for wrapping a string around and spinning when you pull the string? Plumb bobs?

There's a groove on one of the "medium" ones, but just on the one. I kind of thought it was a spinning top toy but after countless atempts to make it spin and not fall over, I kinda gave up on that idea. lol
Title: Re: Help with identifying.
Post by: JTtheChameleon on March 23, 2009, 04:12:16 PM: Quote from: KC on March 23, 2009, 11:17:29 AM
I would stick with the plumb bob idea...but there aren't any holes or way to suspend. Monument is a tool company that has been around for a very, very long time and does make plumb bobs. (One of my grandfather's was a carpenter and had lots of tools marked Monument.)

Ideas?

Thats really interesting about Monument tools!
Title: Re: Help with identifying.
Post by: railman44 on March 23, 2009, 04:37:03 PM: Probably way off base but could they be a primitive device to measure the inside diameter of pipe?
Title: Re: Help with identifying.
Post by: KC on March 23, 2009, 09:31:43 PM: Do any of the others show what is under the word Monument and the pic of the pillar....there is the beginning of a word that isn't showing up.

What are these made of? Wood?

They could be sizing cones!
Title: Re: Help with identifying.
Post by: cogar on March 24, 2009, 02:40:12 AM: I thought they looked to be made of a plastic or composite. And after racking my brain I decided they may have been used as an “auto-sealing” flow valve plunger (small end down) via the same principle as employed in one’s commode tank that permits the water to “flush out” and then re-close to permit the tank to refill with water. Just a guess.