[daepp]

Wow - great info Milt, thanks!

I had previously made contact with the original owner of the property, and he confirmed he saved a bunch of stuff from his citrus-farmer-grandfather's barn. Based on the age of the grandson, in all likelihood his grandfather would have been born near the end of the 19th century. I hadn't yet found this "thing" so I didn't ask him about it, but he did confirm that the boiler (he called it a steam generator) was from that barn, and that the oil cart was for filling smudge pots.