Need help identifying and value

This is in a house I bought.
I know nothing about it.
Found only 1 type of mark

 

Can we see the item ? I think maybe thats Russian,but Im often wrong. Is the item a samovar?

 

Hello, Robert. Please give us a hint and post a picture showing the entire item.

 

I suspect that the picture of the mark is upside down.

 

Brass plated lamp base? We can guess all night if you want..........

 

Take your pick!!! I flipped it to what looks like right side up for first...maybe a tankard of some sort???? In which case the second image would be the correct orientation, but still doesn't specifically identify it!!!
Regardless, Welcome Robert!!



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A horse of a different color????

 

Photo of whole item please.

 

where is it in the house....?

the bathroom.....the kitchen......the pool..?

( & yes....I've been in a house that had an indoor pool !!!)

 

C'mon Gris-give us a hint ?

 

I think he's playing with us at this point!!! Might be copper or a brownish porcelain??​

 

It is. It looks Cyrillic Т.Ю. edit, T. K. I don't know what the item is, though. It may help.

 

It certainly would help, Iva! We all wish that @Robert Griswold would post at least one!

 

Agree!
Anyway, it is a Russian samovar, Kolchuginskiy factory. Found the mark in Russian forum discussion.
https://www.samovar-forum.ru/forum/9-280-1
Text In Russian,
Товарищество латунного и меднопрокатного заводов А. Кольчугина»
Edit: it is not Т.Ю, it is Т.К., K is stylised. From Kolchugin, I guess. T is for Tovarischestvo - literary comradeship, a form of entrepreneurship in tsarist Russia.

Johnny, you are right, it is Russian.

 

he's busy with his new house.......

 

I would say that most folks don't leave treasures in the houses they sell....
but..
Davey will prove me wrong....time and time again..!

 

Komo, they may not know it is a treasure...

 

true that !!

 

From the mark, the samovar seems from imperial Russia, after 1917 ithe factory was nationalised and used different marks.

 

Salmovars can be stunning......
I wanna see it !!

@Robert Griswold ......... where ya at fella ?????