MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Marilyn]

I always escape quickly when the G word is mentioned...

[Stanley]

[Gloria]

What is this? Seen in a pub in Ballyshannon.

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[Marilyn]

An Apple Corer/Crusher?
( do they have apples in Ireland?)

[Gloria]

Sorry, wrong Marilyn.

[Tizer]

Did you notice Maz leaving the building as soon as you mentioned the G word?

I avoid the dreaded garlic too so I joined Maz in the Mercedes and we made our escape!

Seeing Maz's photo of the box holding the cheese slices brought back a memory. It reminds me of the old days before personal computers when I used to keep alphabetically ordered reference cards in a plastic box. The box was never as attractive as Maz's example though! Another memory from that box - do any of you remember an American company called, I think, Gateway Computers. The PCs were sold in boxes with the same cow pattern black & white. It was because the boss of the company had been a Mid-West farmer.

Gloria, is it for fitting crown caps on bottles?

[Marilyn]

Tizzy...I loved the way your hair waved in the breeze and my scarf blew out behind me as we "floored" the Merc!
I can only say, that the box keeps my cheese slices in perfect condition. For a cheap product, it does the job perfectly ( hence its 15 years in the fridge)
Are we talking "floppy discs" here? Hubby had so many floppy discs when we first met. All given the boot long ago.

[Gloria]

Sorry Tizer, but wrong.

[Cathy]

Gloria, is it a sprayer for cleaning glasses?

[Tizer]

Cathy, which photo are you looking at?

Gloria, is it for pushing a charge into an artillery shell case?

[chinatyke]

Beer can crusher?

[Gloria]

No to everything so far.

[Marilyn]

Potato apparatus? ( Ireland )

[chinatyke]

An Apple Corer/Crusher?
( do they have apples in Ireland?)

They have potatoes and moonshine. A potato crusher?

[Cathy]

Artillery shell case ? It's in a pub.
Does it dispense soda water?

[plaques]

Home brewed beer crown corker. The throat gap looks small so probably for dumpy bottles of high alcohol content.

[Gloria]

Still all wrong.

[Wendyf]

For stamping coins or tokens?

[chinatyke]

I reckon the throat is about 4 to 5" and the travel of the "push rod" is about 3 to 3½" so whatever was placed on the bed wouldn't be pierced completely. Unless there is a piece missing?
It's for punching holes in sticks of gelignite to insert the detonator and fuse.

[Gloria]

Wendy is getting nearer.

[Tizer]

Pressing out the faces of military uniform buttons?

[Wendyf]

Is it a button making press?

[Gloria]

Going to have to give it to you both, this is the modern equivalent.

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[Big Kev]

I have a more basic model which involves hitting it with a hammer.

[Stanley]

Fascinating. I missed all that but might have got somewhere near as it hasn't enough room in the throat for the more obvious uses like corking wine bottles.
A very good object Gloria.