At least, I think it's a governor part.
On the box's label, there's the 'description'. "Choke". I don't buy that.
This looks to me like part of an engine's speed-governing system (all generator engines are speed governed).
This can join the Kohler rope-start pulley. I guess that shelf with the Clinton engine on it is going to be my small engine parts department,
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