What is it?

[RogerP]

Found in job lot of tools. It's brass, screwed top and filled with wadding.

 

[n0legs]

I think it's a blowlamp. You light it and blow in the pipe to create a usable flame.
My mate, apprentice plumber, made one in his first year many years ago.

 

[n0legs]

Here's something very similar.

http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/atta ... 1432747973

Here's another link with a little discussion. Post #15
http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/show ... p?t=116686

 

[novocaine]

^ding ding ding^ we have a winner.
it's a mouthblown jewellers torch (blowlamp)
haven't heard of togas before, but leave it with me, I'll ask those in the know.

 

[AndyT]

Toga was the 'own brand' of Buck and Hickman, so turns up on quite a wide range of tools.

 

[novocaine]

something else I've just found Andy. no more information from the blowlamp society though.

 

[AndyT]

Here it is, from the 1953 catalogue. It wasn't in the 1935 one, or the 1964, so that narrows the date down a bit.

 

[RogerP]

Thanks very much all, I don't think I'll be using it though.

 

[bugbear]

Moore & Wright:

BugBear

 

[Sheffield Tony]

They do tend to make you feel rather lightheaded, the combination of interfering with your breathing pattern and causing you to gasp in fumes between blows.

 

[lurker]

Thanks very much all, I don't think I'll be using it though.

You could use vodka instead of meths. Lots safer