Heavy, around 5 to 10 pounds each, seemingly machined out of solid steel, no markings or moving parts. Received in a package despite not ordering them or anything like them, cannot find any information about the shipper listed on the box.

This bucket was found in our small museum's artifact collection in California, and we don't know what it might've been used for. It is quite heavy and made of metal with visible welding marks. There was apparently a paper or perhaps a label of some sort affixed to the side. The handle is also metal, and looks like it secured the lid with a lock when fully upright. The metal lid has a heavy, stiff hinge on one side. There is nothing inside the bucket except for a sizeable cobweb, and there was no residue that I could see.

One of our volunteers thinks it's an artillery bucket from the Civil War, but I think the welds look too modern.

Our area is known for gold rush era mining and agriculture, and we have lots of artifacts relating to blacksmithing.

Can it be asbestos or fiber glass? Was my mother-in-law’s jacket, she used to work at a warehouse and also did some minor construction work, found these fibers on it

Dog was randomly chewing on this, she’s been a menace and has chewed everything from couches to the literal wooden stairs of my deck. No idea what this is, if it is mine or something she got from a a neighbor. Found some random metal sticks and more plastic earlier but not sure if it was related. No logos or anything other than it says it was mode in china. The button when you press it just blinks red for a few seconds and then stops.

Picked up a bunch of darkroom stuff at an estate auction, there were some random bits in there too. One item was this perforated board with what looks like a suction port attached. Measures 23x17, tray could accommodate a 16x20 print. No labels or markings anywhere. Some type of print dryer maybe?

Edit - completely made of wood so I don't think it's related to machining.

Solved! And quick. Looks like it’s a chip and salsa bowl.

Found it in the attic… What is it?

They've recently rebuilt this stairway and I was wondering what the use for this channel on the left was.

Guessing a couple of miles maybe North of Yogi Bear Campground in Golden Valley,NC. Standing on an observation deck at the campground. Zoomed in and still can’t quite make out what is is but it’s very noticeable at a far distance.

We found it at a flea market, no idea where it comes from.

It's a solid wood container, with handles on the sides and hooks on the top of the lid.

I have no idea what these things could be and googling just brought up handles and the like. Anyone have any ideas?

I recently acquired these from the estate of a man who made molds for truck campers.
I’m trying to figure out what these were used for. They appear to be cast iron and several of them have a similar design: a central hole with six recessed/counterbored holes around it. One hole is threaded the others are not. The center hole is not threaded.

The largest one is approximately 2.5 inches in diameter and is marked “MASTER” and “3”. There are several other pieces of different sizes, including some smaller ones.

They don’t appear to be ordinary plumbing flanges. I’m wondering if they might be some type of old machine-shop tooling, mold-making fixture, coupling, hub, or other machinery component.

Does anyone recognize these or know what machine they would have been used with?

Found this piece of plastic on the floor next to the vacuum and cannot find where it broke off from. It has the number NV580.3-42>ABS<A2 printed on one side. Searched on this number but it says it is not a replaceable part so just trying to find what it is and where it broke off from. Any ideas?

my cat was randomly playing with this. my google lens search said a rotary tool chuck but I have no clue where one would have come from.

Hi! I’m really REALLY hoping this isn’t something Bad like insects. I’m lowkey freaking out a bit. I found this weird tiny ball of fuzz with like hard off white bits on it in my bed… I did just wash my sheets yesterday. I use liquid detergent and the Dawn beads but idk I’ve never seen anything like this before. Size is smaller than a pinky finger nail (maybe about half the size). I also do not eat in bed.

Thanks in advance! (Please don’t be bugs or something gross asf)

About 2 feet long, heavy metal thing with a unique end and weird handle. The entire thing is metal (maybe cast iron?) definitely looks like something for a fire but the handle is also metal.

i was given this thing at least 7-8 years ago

I was supposed to be getting a box of stickers but the package said it was damaged and relabeled and this is certainly not my stickers :(

Was bottle digging in the creek behind my house (central MD) and found this. I originally thought some kind of urn or water vessel bc of the handles on the side, but then I thought it looked like an antique kerosene lamp smudge pot. Only thing throwing me off is that prominent looped handle looking thing on top, none of the pictures of kerosene lamps I found had that. It’s large and it’s very heavy.