Um...I dont see the gauge in any of the images on that link. ?? Which one shows it?
Thanks.
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From: Stathi Pappas <[log in to unmask]>
To: HISTARCH <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wed, Jul 8, 2015 2:57 pm
Subject: Re: Looking for help ID'ing a glass artifact
As for seeing water levels in a reflex gauge the ridges make it easier to see as
in:
http://www.scpc2.com/boiler.html#PhotoSwipe1436392335670
Photo being
taken on my locomotive during construction.
Best,
Stathi
Efstathios
I Pappas, MS
Curator of Collections
Northwest Railway Museum
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> On Jul 8, 2015, at 1:58 PM, Carol Serr
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>
> We found one of those...I
think in the U. S. Grant Jr. summer home dump site (but cant trust my memory).
THANKS for the ID! But How does one easily SEE thru those grooves/lines? Guess
it wasn't super accurate.
>
>
> The summer home was near a rail spur (Aloha
Sta)...so near a rail line.
> Also among the items were 2 Totally smashed
shell casings! Finally it occurred to me. I bet the children put the casing on
the rail to watch what would happen when the train ran over it! I couldn't
figure out any other way for the casing to be SO flattened (no hammer marks).
> I'm pretty sure the son collected the various shell casings (shot shells
too) since there was a collection of over 100 handgun or shotgun casings of only
1 or 2 of each "brand" (name, like Climax, Arrow, Magic, etc.)...along with 107
rifle shells - of 5 makers, mostly Union Metallic Cart. Co....of 8 different
firing pin marks.
>
>
> Carol Serr
>
>
> Carol(at)LagunaEnv.com
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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4:46 pm
> Subject: Re: Looking for help ID'ing a glass artifact
>
>
> It's
a sighting to view the level of water of a boiler we have one collected
> from
a railroad logging site.
>
>
> Jamie Moore
> District Archaeologist
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:
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Scott
> Sent: Monday, July 06,
> 2015 4:20 PM
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Subject: Looking for help ID'ing a glass
> artifact
>
> Hi all,
>
> We
recently found an unusual glass artifact associated
> with an early to mid-
20th Century logging town that was used as a sanitarium
> after the mill shut
down, and refuse deposits from the two periods are
> mixed.
>
> We've put
some pictures of the glass artifact on our website- if
> anyone has any idea
what this might have been used for or a part of, we'd love
> to
> know:
>
>
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Environment/CulRes/Compliance.htm
>
> Dimensions
>
are on the website-it's a thick, oval-shaped bar of clear glass, with ridges
>
molded on one side and "Made in Germany" etched on the other. It looks like
>
something industrial-a lens for some kind of light, perhaps, but we haven't
seen
> anything like it before.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott S. Williams
>
Cultural Resources
> Program Manager, WSDOT
> Ph: 360.570.6651
> Mobile:
>
360.485.5350
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