Sorry for the late reply, but now that it has arrived I can post some better pictures. There are no words or numbers of any kind stamped anywhere that I could find, but please note the following characteristics that I have observed:
1. The reservoir is NOT glass as the previous owner thought; instead, it appears to be acrylic/plexiglass.
2. The base and top cover are made of solid aluminum. The only steel parts are the (breather?) plug in the top cover, the knob on the end of the metering tube and a spiral-wound steel wire inside the tube which acts as an auger.
3. The base has at some point been painted with wrinkle paint which has obviously experienced a lot of wear over the years.
4. The top cover is machined to amazingly close tolerances; It requires a bit of an effort to insert it into the reservoir yet it doesn't scratch it. Impressive! I have no idea why the underside has a threaded hole in the center, though.
5. The brass tube has a shallow groove machined to accept a retaining snap ring, barely visible in the first picture, butted up against the reservoir next to the ruler. This, of course, is to keep the tube from sliding back and forth and/or falling out of the reservoir.
6. The reservoir is not attached to the base via threads or an adhesive. Instead, the base is machined with a raised circular "platform" that fits perfectly inside the reservoir with a threaded hole in the center. There is a rubber disc or O-ring (I haven't disassembled it yet to know exactly which) that lies on top of said "platform" and then a (stainless steel?) disk is placed on top of it. The brass screw that can be seen underneath the brass tube is then inserted through the center of that disk and the rubber disk, then tightened, which "squishes" the rubber against the side of the reservoir at the bottom. This holds the reservoir in place by pressure/friction similar to a compression plug.
Hopefully these pictures and the above description will be helpful in identification.