Stone item, help identify

Can someone help me identify this stone species?

What was it used for?

It stamp with: eigellith
High 10 cm
Diameter 15 cm

 

Is the first photograph the top view of a lid? (From your photos it is a little difficult to understand the basic shape of the object - a view from the side might be helpful.) Does the separate hole along the side empty into the main basin, or is it closed at the bottom?
It might be a man-made composite/reconstituted type of "stone", and named eigellith because it is a "stone" (lithic) made by a person or company named eigel.

 

Some sort of a pipe cover?? I.E., to be glued in place maybe, at the ending of a pipe?? The diameter is what's making me think that.........

 

Looks like there a "T" at the beginning.

 

I agree. I do not know this brand name, but I'm sure it is something similar to Incolay:



or Coralay:



or Marlestone:

 

I see a possibility of Teichellith, & Teichel is a surname.

Did you know that if you clicked '+Quote' to add the post to multiquote, if you click it a second time it removes it from Multiquote? I didn't, until doing it accidentally.

 

Ah, it's a 'toggle' button. Nice find, Bronwen!

 

Unfortunately, the 1932 snippet below was all I could retrieve, and additionally, the Dec. 20, 1935 London Gazette published notice of Eigellith, Ltd. being struck from the register of companies and the company dissolved.



~Cheryl

 

Frustrating to have just that bit, but perhaps someone in the UK might have access to more - suspect it has more to do with the material being some sort of resin/composite and its manufacture than the purpose of this or any other particular item...

~Cheryl

 

Agree. The snippet mentions the right of manufacturing & dealing in Eigellith & Eigel wares. A licensing deal for a proprietary process/material.

 

This seems to make it clear that it is Eigellith rather than Teigellith, which is helpful. The company may have had a very short lifespan, which is why the name is so elusive.

With that interior cup, (if it is in fact closed on the bottom,) might it be some sort of humidor? Not tall enough for cigars, but for something else?

 

It reminds me of something that might be used in film-developing, back when there was film, and people who developed it. Perhaps to wash a roll of negatives, during processing; it looks like a material that might be chemical-resistant, to resist the processing chemicals?
Similar to:

 

I agree it looks sort of chemical resistant. But having spent many hours in the darkroom with my amateur photographer Dad, I don't remember anything with that asymmetrical reservoir on one side.

 

I doubt it's even close...but I can't help looking in this direction.......
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