Strange Sealed Glass Object

[wendy177]

Here is a toilet tank float clearly marked with no threads
http://www.tias.com/14154/PicPage/3923744384.html
sorry just put toilet float in the search field on this site

[waywardangler]

Wendy, I am very familiar with glass fishing floats.  What would be the purpose of a threaded end unless it screwed into something?  Do you have a reference to a threaded end fishing float as I have never seen or heard of one?  Not that it is not that but I just have my doubts without a concrete reference.  I also do not think it is a toilet float but who knows?  Another conundrum.

[KC]

I'm with wendy that it is a float for the toilet.

However...haven't seen one without a plug.

http://www.google.com/products?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=s&hl=en&q=antique+toilet+float&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=S-HIS6H-JoGa8AT_sPy-DA&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=image&resnum=3&ved=0CC0QzAMwAg

[wendy177]

KC honestly I think it is a glass fishing float as the end is sealed with glass  as with fishing floats so no need of a plug like you mentioned & all the toilet floats I have seen do not have the threaded end just a lip like the ones on the site you posted. plus I think a diameter of 12 3/4"  is to large for a toilet float?? I think you are right wayward another conundrum maybe it is something else altogether!!

[regularjoe2]

Interesting Tesla-esque item , killdead 660 .

Have you ever gotten this item around a high-voltage charge ? 

Pretty sure not for fishin' , or flushin ' .

[syl]

This thing looks just like the toilet tank float that winffup posted being for sale on ebay on the first page. Thats gotta be it. I think.

[waywardangler]

A toilet tank float gets my vote too.  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170438871043&rvr_id=&crlp=1_263602_263622&UA=WXI7&GUID=38f72d9a1270a23664419a41fff64e3c&itemid=170438871043&ff4=263602_263622

The one on KC's post that had no pic looks like this on eBay...

[regularjoe2]

Noting the OP's description of the diameter @ 12 inches , do you still think it's a tank float ?

[winffup]

I think the op meant circumference instead of diameter. Look at their hand holding the piece, if that piece is 12 in dia. we have the answer to Shaq.

http://img697.imageshack.us/i/p1010009o.jpg/

[waywardangler]

If the size is 12" diameter than it may be the Jolly Green Giant's tank float.  If the circumference is 12", then it may be for the rest of us. 

[regularjoe2]

I know someone who could use a Thomas A. that size .

 

[KC]

Could be for a community pot!!!!