pelican

[ausfire]

Found a thing that looked like a pelican's head, so made the rest from an old buggy spring, a couple of picks, a water pipe and a pair of U-bolts. It's heading to a beach house down on the coast. Anyone know what that head/beak piece is???

[Les L]

Great job on the pelican. Your imagination is amazing, I never would have  seen a pelican's head in that before you put it together.

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

I don't have a clue, but I think my wife has hit the nail on the head. An antique deep throat magazine stapler.

[Scott NC]

That beak looks like a missing spark advance linkage mechanism for my Hupmobile.  If you have another, I would be glad to pay shipping....  Nice Pelican! 

[Frosty]

3 hours ago, Irondragon Forge & Clay said:

I don't have a clue, but I think my wife has hit the nail on the head. An antique deep throat magazine stapler.

The pelican's name isn't Linda is it? 

Frosty The Lucky.

[CrazyGoatLady]

Another great looking piece of art. Well done, Aus. 

[ausfire]

Nodebt, I do actually have another one of these, but I don't think it's what you're looking for. Anyway, I took a photo because it's easier to see than the one on the pelican. No one seems to know what it is.

[Daswulf]

Very cool Aus! Seeing the unuse piece I can see how you got the idea. Well done!

First thought was scale weight slide missing the weights but it doesn't really look right for that. Who knows. 

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

I still don't have a clue but like Das some kind of calibration part. Linda could be a fitting name after seeing the movie decades ago.

[Scott NC]

17 hours ago, ausfire said:

No one seems to know what it is.

  And for good reason.  It looks as though the bar on the bottom of the beak is offset on the "mouth" end, to the nut and casting.  Its seems centered on the "head" end.  Clue?  Idk.  The "eye" is probably for a bolt to hold the thing tight on a shaft.  Confused yet?  So am I....  I can tell you what it is.  Its the head to another fine pelican!

[ausfire]

I think we have found the answer. It's the business end of an old style syphon pump similar (but not identical) to this one.  Here's  picture from an early 1900s catalogue:

[JHCC]

“A wonderful bird is the Pelican.
His beak can hold more than his belly can.
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week!
But I'll be darned if I know how the hellican?”

― Dixon Lanier Merritt