"This appears to be a paperweight from my late grandfather’s desk, made out of a metal part. My papa worked for NASA on the space shuttle programs and the ECLSS program (Failure and Analysis). Is this maybe part of a machine from his lab? I googled the numbers but no luck."
A: "I work for a company that does a lot of gearing. This is what you’d call a “hob”, or gear hobbing cutter head."