MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

Let's see Tom. It's a hard one!

[Gloria]

I haven’t a clue.

[Stanley]

Clue for you then. It's connected with ornamental turning.......

[Cathy]

Is it to do with Clocks

[Stanley]

No Cathy and I have decided it's too specialised, I doubt if anyone will get it. I'll have a look at midday and if nobody has got anywhere near I'll knock it on the head.

[Big Kev]

Looks like an azimuth mirror attachment for a ship's compass to me...

[Stanley]

Sorry it isn't onr of them and nothing to do with optics. It is, however, to do with angles.......

[Stanley]

As I thought, too obscure. See THIS auction site for more information.
It's a Goneostat By Holtzappfel who virtually invented the modern ornamental turning lathe. It was used for sharpening the cutters used for turning Ivory and very hard woods.
I can almost certainly guarantee that you'll never see one!

[Stanley]

What are these?
(Very difficult, i shan't let it hang about long.... Clue, there is a connection with the goneostat.

[Stanley]

You've seen them before. If there is no response I'll reveal at dinnertime.

[Stanley]

They are lapping plates for use with the Goneostat. The left is brass and the right is cast iron. They were used for putting the finest edge possible on high carbon steel cutters for use with ivory.
Try this one.



What are we looking at?

[Cathy]

Is this something to do with drying wood?

[Stanley]

Not wood Cathy but you're on the right track with drying!

[Steeplejerk]

I'm thinking wuz holes but they are normally circular

[Wendyf]

Drying rack stones.

[Big Kev]

I'm with Wendy, rack stones from a drying kiln. I'll also throw in that they were in the walls around Booth Bridge Mill. Perhaps around 1979?

[Stanley]

Wendy has it right. Rack stones from a corn-drying kiln. This one at Booth Bridge, Thornton in Craven.
Not many people know about wuzz holes Tom, very close!
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[Stanley]

What national dress is this?

[Steeplejerk]

Laos

[Cathy]

Ukrainian

[Stanley]

I think Tom knows but I want the name of the people Tom, they live in more than one country.....

[Big Kev]

Hmong?

[Stanley]

Exactly right Kev. My friend Bee Vang and her sisters.
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[Stanley]

Can you tell me what we are looking at here?

[Steeplejerk]

I know