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Posted by Cliff Hartle on April 27, 2008, 6:53 pm
He was a ship's carpenter.
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> Cliff Hartle wrote:
>> We found this thing in our house when we moved in 20 years ago and don't
>> know what it is.
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>> Its made out of some sort of cast stone and weighs about 60 pounds.
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>> Here an album of pics.
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>> http://picasaweb.google.com/cliff.hartle/Thing
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>> This pic is from the back.
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>> http://picasaweb.google.com/cliff.hartle/Thing/photo#5194047587609316978
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>> It looks like a thin walled pipe came in from the front and was sealed to
>> it.
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>> Thanks
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> Just a WAG here, but it looks like part of a fountain, or maybe the
> ornamental trim from the drain porthole coming off a flat roof. If
> somebody had a pipe mudded into the front, maybe they were trying to get
> the roof to drain away from the wall, so it wouldn't stain the
> brick/stucco or whatever. Backside looks awful clean for an item that was
> ever actually used, though. Did previous owner maybe work at a decorative
> concrete company or something like that? My gut says it got dragged home
> for a project that didn't work out.
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> aem sends...
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