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Can any one identify this box housed brass beauty please as the pic was forwarded to me to ID

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FL/GA PLS., post: 409745, member: 379 wrote: Been going to all those DC pre-inaugural parties with free booze, haven't we? 😉

I wish...it's a clusterf%$k already...they start restricting access and closing down streets today and I'm trying to get an ALTA survey of a building the government is http://dcist.com/2016/11/cotton_annex_building_auction.php&apos ;">auctioning off as surplus property out the door by Tuesday.


 
Posted : January 18, 2017 9:27 am
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James Fleming, post: 409755, member: 136 wrote: I wish...it's a clusterf%$k already...they start restricting access and closing down streets today and I'm trying to get an ALTA survey of a building the government is http://dcist.com/2016/11/cotton_annex_building_auction.php&apos ;">auctioning off as surplus property out the door by Tuesday.

You should walk over to the White House, with a cloth tape, plumb bob, and clipboard, and say your here to do a survey for a new fence/wall around the property.


 
Posted : January 18, 2017 9:34 am
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Robert Hill, post: 409673, member: 378 wrote: Since it was brass, I wondered if it had some nautical application but nothing comes to mind.
Plus the carry box doesn't make sense.

It could have been used to move ammunition since brass is non-ferrous.


 
Posted : January 18, 2017 9:40 am
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Does the axle have ball bearings? Looking at pic I'm not sure. Polished and boxed it looks laboratory grade.


 
Posted : January 19, 2017 6:32 am
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