Help Identifying item/part

[m4fun]

Greeting!

Picked up a lot of black powder parts and have no idea what this is. Only marked TC 50:

Thanks,

Brian

 

[Sam squanch]

I’ll bite…. Something to lube bullets with? I’ve never seen anything like that!

 

[Harry Marinakis]

I've seen one of those before. It's definitely a thing-a-ma-jig.

 

[poker]

is that a type of swage?

 

[Johnny Too-Tall]

I had something somewhat similar in design. It was designed to drop a round ball in and cinch it down and it was supposed to make a close to perfect round ball. Basically after you cast the ball in a mold, you smushed it the tool and it was supposed to perfect it, and removed the sprew and all. I found it to be useless and not sure where it might be, literally the ball got stuck in it often.
Or it could be a ball holder and when you press the button it releases a round ball in this case a 50 cal ball.

 

[TDM]

What does the end of the threaded portion look like? This is a new one on me.

 

[TDM]

Greeting!

Picked up a lot of black powder parts and have no idea what this is. Only marked TC 50:

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Thanks,

Brian

Out of curiosity I've been searching the Internet for any similar items of this description. Haven't found a perfect match, but it is similar, particularly the end you have shown, to old brass puematic valves. If the other end that's threaded has a hole in it I'd say that's what it is. Don't think it's muzzleloader related.

 

[m4fun]

First - thanks everyone for participating on the quest! I love this community and the support.

With help of padded pliers I was finally able to turn that screw. Opened it up and it appears to be lube of some type.
Continued to work with a large punch and hammer, and that brass cylinder I was able to free up. The fact it is convex led me to believe it had to do with the top of round nose or round ball. Now when you turn the big screw the lube come out in that recess.

Certainly an interesting single conical lubing contraption. Guessing for a TC Maxiball

Sam Squanch seems to be right on with this.

 

[Sam squanch]

I was RIGHT two times in one week!!!!

 

[waarp8nt]

I believe conclusion it's a luber of some sort is correct, but it's not like the T/C lubers I've seen in the wild. So, I went to dig through my old T/C catalogs 5, 8, 11, 18 and 25. Catalog 18 has the more common T/C luber, but nothing before 18 in my collection. I would be interested to learn more about it.