What's this possibly plumbing item

[Tim Streater]

Anyone know what this is:

or who makes/made them and where to get spares?

[Andy Burns]

1950's vaping device?

Why would you need spares for an unknown item?

[Chris Hogg]

No idea, but how big is it?

[Jeremy Wormington]

replying to Tim Streater, Jeremy Wormington wrote: Looks like a gas burner of a torch or similar

[Harry Bloomfield]

Tim Streater used his keyboard to write :

My best guess, is that it replaces the plug in a sink, to provide an overflow at a set level.

[Tim Streater]

Someone I know posted that pic on Twitter with the questions I asked in my OP. I've now asked him for size and normal location info.

[critcher]

you put tea leaves in the perforated end and stand it in your mug and pour over the hot water.

[Nightjar]

Probably also need to know whether or not the ends are sealed, whether it opens at any of the joins and what, if anything, is inside it.

[charles]

A photo with either a £1 coin or a matchbox would give teh size.

[Andy Bennet]

I think it is a Vet tool. You ram it up a cows arse and light the end to burn off excess methane when a cow has guts ache.

[critcher]

ho ho i like that

[newshound]

That's what I thought too! For a *very* up-market butlers / belfast sink.

They are normally wood or perhaps ebonite, and just open at the top.

[newshound]

So do I! Renewable energy, of course; perhaps to provide lighting for the milkmaids!

The silver plating is also consistent with environmentalists with more money than sense.

[Tim Streater]

Ha ha ha v. funny the lot of you :-)

Your responses will appear on Twitter soonest.

Meanwhile, my friend sez: "I should have been clearer - it's shower attachment but the hose bit has disappeared and I can't find out that fits this brand but I can't see any writing on it so no brand!"

Seems weird to me, I must say. But any useful feedback based on the above (the shower bit, not the horses arse bit) would be most helpful.

[Graham.]

On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 17:02:04 GMT, Harry Bloomfield coalesced the vapors of human experience into a viable and meaningful comprehension...

I had such a device included in the photography kit I got for my 13th birthday. It was for washing prints. It didn't look much like the OPs picture though.

[T i m]

You fanatic Brexiteers aren't vary good at keeping track of facts are you?

Horse != Cow.

(except in some meat supply chains of course). ;-)

Cheers, T i m

[Fredxx]

Where Remaoners can't tell the difference! :-)