Look at what I found in a pile of stuff that came from my dad's.
They go Honk - Honk and Squirt
My dad was born on a farm in Indiana in 1928, he said the best Christmas he ever had as a child was one year when he got a harmonica, a popgun, and an orange!
My mom reminds me often that Christmas for her kin (there were 12 kids) for several years was a new pair of socks with an orange in them.
Neat horns. Those sprayers used to be worthless, but now collectors are turning them into things to hang on the wall...
Mike Sal
I bought a Hudson sprayer from a guy who said he painted a Plymouth with it.
Rich
I'd rather have the horns.
Yeah, but even the "sprayer" looks to be solid brass & copper! All polished up it'll look great!
I'm amazed at how often you see those old brass "Pyrene" fire extinguishers all polished up and mounted in some very visible spot on a Model "T". I remember when the railroad I worked for at the time, literally "threw away" (as in, thrown in the dumpster) hundreds of those old things. Wish I'd snagged a couple of them as they really do polish up pretty nice, even tho' those ol' carbon tetrachloride things are pretty worthless for actual use as a fire extinguisher.
Well, really, that's not quite right. They really did work pretty well as a fire extinguisher, but years ago, when everybody became concerned about the dangerous fumes from "carbon tet", the usual "over-reaction resulted,....hence the dumpster!
i believe the ww2 army sprayers were brass like that, look for a U.S. marking on it, or faint traces of olive drab
When I read the title of this thread I thought it was going to be about geese! That'a about all they do all day is two honks and a squirt! My yard looks like a goose latrine.