I think this is a cast iron chain break for cast iron pipe, but I'm reaching deep into the way back machine for that, feel free to correct me. Don't think many people use cast iron any more, but if you do, you really should get this.
With an appropriate handle, would make an awesome attitude...
A brass water pressure gauge, these things are supposed to be decorators items - the American Picker guys love them. Not frozen, don't know how accurate, no makers marks that I can find. Try to get the GF to blow into in the interest of science, she, uuuhh, refused, not the first time that's...
Well, it could be, I don't have a clue,
some sort of analog meter, needs power source of unknown voltage, was in box lot from an auction.
Pick up in Athens
https://www.radioexperimenter.us/rm-1982-01/mode.html
A $9.99 value anywhere else, but completely free on ODT...
Man, I wish you were closer.
FWIW, telephone cable sheathing is the purest, softest lead commonly available and is used by a lot of reloaders as the standard by which to gauge bullet hardness, and the basis for alloys. You're correct about Southern Bell/Bellsouth (and everything else AT&T)...