Looking For Info on Old Brass Device from Oil City, PA

Help, please, with any information on this heavy, solid brass object standing 13" tall. It's shaped rather like a rolling pin with only one handle. The "handle" unscrews and the insides are apparently meant to contain something. Stamped around the top is A. A. Parkhurst Oil City, PA. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

 

No hole in the tip of that?
Seems like an oiler.

 

No hole.

 

railroad flare

basically a utility flame

 

At the moment I don't know what this is; however, in 1895 there was a Mrs. A.A. Parkhurst living at 112 Washington St. Oil City, PA. According to the following 1895 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Journal, p. 656, she was president of the Brotherhood's Lodge in Oil City, PA. Yes, it diffinitely says Mrs. and not Mr.

3rd down 2nd column:
https://books.google.com/books?id=HjU1AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA656&lpg=PA656&dq="a.A.+Parkhurst".+oil+city,+pa&source=bl&ots=vrpk1RebrR&sig=EP1gRXHREOzUtY9sDSBLmaUc9qM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhsN3Gl63NAhXKSyYKHbqVASwQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q="a.A. Parkhurst". oil city, pa&f=false

--- Susan

 

And so I was thinking this an oiler for locomotives. If that tip is hollow I think there is a spout missing that that tip fit over to protect it.

 

Here Mrs. AA Parkhurst is mentioned as an officer of Oil City Public Kindergarton Association, p. 133

Top of 2nd column:
https://books.google.com/books?id=530-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq="a.A.+Parkhurst".+oil+city,+pa&source=bl&ots=dCltrVd-_Q&sig=oHL_2i07g0XzYHW_8z6q6ttEVpg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhsN3Gl63NAhXKSyYKHbqVASwQ6AEIHjAC#v=onepage&q="a.A. Parkhurst". oil city, pa&f=false

 

If that's an oiler, someone cleaned the bejeebers out of it. Railroad stuff was never that clean unless it was brand new.

 

The finial (stopper) is hollow. Just noticed that there are maybe twice the threads in place inside the canister than used up by the stopper. The clean condition is the way we found it. Thanks for all your ideas so far.

 

It is not an oiler. All forms of oiler have some way of forcing out the oil, and this can be a pump plunger or even the thin sides of a sewing machine oil can. Even if that had a spout, and the internal thread seems to preclude that, you could only dribble oil from it.


Putting a name on it seems to indicate that it was a 'long term'
posession, something to have and use constantly, or at least regularly.

If A.A. was a Mrs, maybe she filled it with warm water and used it to warm up parts of the body other heaters could not reach?

 

I haven't seen the bottom so maybe that is very thin...

 

Seriously.....an anal probe ??? .........or worse.....

 

And a HOT one at that!!

 

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"Hello! We're Archie Bell and the Drells...from Houston Texas... We not only sing but we dance just as good as we walk. We've got a new dance for ya'....it's called the Tighten Up..."

 

I can not unsee this!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Ok as the self-appointed forum poet, how 'bout

A thing of brass

Made for one's a__

 

Hi,
Perhaps if you could hold the threads without damaging them, you might find the holder with a hole at the tip under the cap. I only say that is because I have an old car oiler like that and the lid keeps coming off with the noozle with the hole.
greg

 

Can the top be gotten off... maybe it covers a wick, for Terry's old railroad flare after all?
Or maybe just an ornamental one for display for old Mr. Big??

 

Eventually!

 

Thanks for all your ideas everybody but I don't think we've yet struck quite the right note. There's nothing under the cap...it's hollow right to the top. Not sure I should use "anal probe" in my item description. Does money follow funny?