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Hose bib age

Tinman
Tinman Member Posts: 2,808
in Plumbing
Working on a job today and a customer gave me a bucket of old fittings and valves, including this hose bib. Does anyone have a guess on its age? It's already on the shelf with the other old stuff.
Steve Minnich

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  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 16,283
    Almost looks like a regular pipe thread instead of a garden hose thread.

    I don't think that one is that old.

    I am thinking of one of the old porcelain sinks. Seems to me they would have a hot water valve and a cold water valve (no mixing) and the cold would have hose threads on it. Chrome plated brass with the TEE handel
    Tinman
  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 16,237
    The knob looks kind of similar to the valves I removed from our house when we moved in.





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  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 17,326
    I'd say 1920s.
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  • Tinman
    Tinman Member Posts: 2,808
    As expected, you're absolutely right @Steamhead. I just found a Standard Sanitary catalog from that era. Seems they offered one with a tapered thread and one with a hose thread.
    Steve Minnich
    ChrisJ
  • Tinman
    Tinman Member Posts: 2,808
    Upper right hand side.

    Steve Minnich
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