This is a disc water meter with split case that fit a a ⅝” pipe, and that was made by the Union Water Meter Company of Worcester, Massachusetts. The serial number has been obliterated. The firm was founded in 1868, introduced the King meter in 1905. and folded in the mid-1930s.
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