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Adjusting nose pads?
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That's it Kev, you have it exactly.
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Miniature surgical tools for a weird dolls house 😁🤷
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Ancient veterinary equipment?
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Tom has it actually but they're not miniature but full size. Antique surgical tools....
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I know 🙊🙊
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A sparking thing for lighting an oxy acetylene torch.
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Correct, too easy! I shall think of another....
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Is it for opening a damper on a back boiler??
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Reminds me of of going down to the cloggers where he had this spoke shaver hooked up a frame and trimmed the wooden soles into shape.
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Ken has it, it's a clogger's knife for shaping the soles.....
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Good one that Stanley. 👏
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It’s Wilson! You found him, yaye!
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Sorry, Cathy, no, it's not Wilson or any other distressed vollyeball. But I enjoyed your post! :good:
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A 'cat's eye' type of road stud?
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Oooh! I know. It's a rigging block from an old sailing ship, a bit like this one
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I think he might have got it....... :biggrin2:
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He's right, it guides the ropes on a sailing ship but what name did the sailors know it by? And which ship did this one belong to? (It has been in the news recently.)
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Chain plate and shroud? Is it on the wreck of HMS Gloucester? 1682.
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Tizer wrote: ↑22 Jul 2022, 08:55 He's right, it guides the ropes on a sailing ship but what name did the sailors know it by? And which ship did this one belong to? (It has been in the news recently.)
A 'deadeye' from HMS Invincible.
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Right name, right ship, well done Kev! :good: (Thinks...Kev is getting too good at this!) :extrawink:
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