This is a disc water meter that fit a ⅝” pipe. The Pittsburgh Meter Company introduced the Keystone meter in 1901, and the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company was still producing it in the late 1930s. The serial number (1,474,178) suggests that this example was made around 1927.
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