Featured Glass jar with metal brackets

Hello to all,
I have a old glass jar with odd metal attachments.

The jar is about 2 quart capacity and I do not see any markings/identification on it.

The lid has a tab that pivots to open/close.

There is a long metal rod that extends down into the jar. It does not have any holes or openings on it. It goes through the lid and on top is a metal piece that seems to have missing parts. The piece itself does not have any moving parts. It just sort of wobbles.

The metal hanger/bracket has one side that is meant to attach to a wall or other stable surface. On one side of the jar, the metal has two nail holes and a convex bump - that side is apparently the side that attaches. The other side and the bottom metal are plain.

This was in an old farmhouse. Anyone have any idea what this might be?

Thanks for any help.

 

looks like part of a kerosene stove.

 

I agree. Easy heat but half the food tasted like kerosene smelled.

 

That's a carburetor part on top. Vacuum to be exact......

 

A carburetor vacuum?

 

Yes.
More a distributor advance actually.

 

I know that was a kerosene or oil stove in our old house (maybe both at different times). How did this thing work?

 

hey ba ba ba barbara ann......no need to show everyone your home address.....!!

 

Medical. Vacuum fluid collector.

 

So it's either a kerosene stove part or it's a vacuum fluid collector?

 

Send me a Christmas card

 

can't say I've ever seen a vacuum return on a kerosene stove but who knows Perhaps Terry is correct

 

I think Terry nailed it.


Vintage fluid collector glass with rubber tube

 

or old windshield wiper washer accessory pump:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950s-Vinta...ry-/302239967604?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368



http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-1950s-v...ash=item1ec2676b08:g:vkAAAOSw2xRYewLb&vxp=mtr

 

Tallcakes - did they ask YOU where Jimmy Hoffa is? 'Cause you seem to be able to ferret out some of the most obscure information!

 

LOL... Hoffa is alive and well with Elvis on an obscure unchartered island is the southwest Pacific.... and Amelia Earhart may be there with them...

 

Naw - she ran off with Judge Crater and they are living in a menage a trois with Micheal Rockefeller