How They Make Them Peeps and More.

It's a Martian kettle.

Can be:

A place to keep ink with a thing to lean a feather.

Or a Oil Lamp. I think it´s a Oil Lamp

I guess it is a water heating device

iv`e never seen anything like it but i think you fill ii with hot water and use it to warm up an arthritic finger joint.
but it was made in springfeild so who knows .
ask homer.

Well, the little spiral thing is either, (a) to cool something in the contents or (b) to hold something. The flat bottom seems more indicative of something designed to be heated, rather than for stability. My guess is maybe there are two chambers inside this thing and it is a portable still of some kind, maybe to purify water?

its C3P0's codpiece

Older version of our modern day equivalent of a candle lighter. Protruding area can be lit to provide reach into gaslight lamps and provide ease through not having to strike many matches to light several lamps around the house.

It may be a pot to haet liquids with a handle to take it(vertical), and other to keep it over the fire.

Or a distilling device, or part of it, working like an italian coffeepot.

A vaporizer. A candle burning under the coil would heat the contents of the kettle to a simmer and fill the invalid's room with healthful eucalyptus and camphor fumes.

I think # 9 has got it.
I was thinking mosquito fogger, but his answer seems more appropriate to the times.

It's probably some instrument of torture.

tea pot

bee hive smoker

It's deceptive because it's upside-down. It's a funnel.
It looks just like one used for canning, except it has that spiral loop - possibly used for distilling or simply to attach it to a stick for a pivot.

Ink well with candle holder?

A vessel to warm medicines, it is heated by a small alachol burner.

It's an alcohol or fuel lamp. The bottom coil has a hole for vapor to escape and when lit heats up the top coil to change the liquid fuel to a gas.

a kettle perhaps

A steampunk marital aid.

It is a small wick lamp. The twisted handle would be dissapation of heat enabling someone to carry it without burning their fingers.

It's a portable still for hillbillies who like to travel.

it looks like a mini-samovar, or something of the sort.

It's an ink warmer. Cold ink won't flow well. The tube is placed in fire and the ink gets warmed.

It's an old gas/alcohol/kerosene lamp. You pump the pressure up with the thing on the left, and there are small holes on the right for lighting the gas/liquid coming out.

Not an oil lamp, an alcohol lamp.

Candle holder?

ink well

Famous Kennedy's long lost kinky toy in the special 'Sprinfield turns hot' Simpsons episode

It's to heat things up. You put the hot water in the hole, close the cap tightly, so the heat doesn't escape, and let the heat make its way though the coils to warm up something that is stuck in there, clothes-pin style.

Or it could be a dunce cap. Place it on the head, of the punished child (there's no bottom - it's hollow) an hang a paper from the coil, stating what the child did wrong.

I think Onyxium has it right. The coil resembles an immersion heater, and probably extends into the chamber. The lid certainly looks like old ink pot lids, with a flat stable bottom to avoid tipping.

Not a lamp, but a small alcohol fondue or chafing dish burner. You place alcohol inside the can, there is a wick to the coil which by the flame's heat generates pressure in the can and keeps the alcohol flowing through the small holes in the ring which perpetuates the cycle. It functions much the same as a vintage alcohol blow torch. Also similar are the new-fangled aluminum can stoves seen on many backpacking sites.

its either a kettle, or a iron press. can be heated and then used to press clothes.

The linked page tells you several things. Read the other clues. Many guesses don't work if you know the other facts.

hmm, you know in the trenches in ww1, the soldiers made things out of whatever they could find. it sort or looks like a cancle holder/snuffer made out of whatever some soldier could find.

It's an inkwell from right around the turn of the century. That's my story & I'm sticking to it...

It's an alcohol lamp. Similar models of modern manufacture are still sold.

It is an old miner's lamp, oil wick circa turn of 19th century.

Great guesses you guys! C3PO codpiece, hah! Congrats to James #7 who got it right (it's a candle lighter).