MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Marilyn]

Ah...see you found the budgie smugglers.
( be still my beating heart)

Bottom one looks like a cover for one of those viewers in a front door. Flip it to the side to expose glass viewer. They seem to have gone out of use these days.

[Stanley]

I doubt it Maz but those were the days! (We may be poor (old) but we have seen life!)

Not a peephole Maz but you are definitely getting warm.

[PanBiker]

Is it a peephole cover for the firebox on a boiler

[Cathy]

Re the Akubra Hats, they are made from rabbit fur...

Is the last item a key lock cover on a door perhaps?

[Gloria]

Is it the cover for a key hole??

[Stanley]

Cathy got it first and Gloria a close second. It's an escutcheon for a keyhole. Try this one.....

[Gloria]

A dowel pin/joint?

[Marilyn]

I am with you, Glo...though it seems to be flat on the back...

[StoneRoad]

compressed dowel for joints....rather like a biscuit.

[Stanley]

Gloria has it exactly right. Fluted to allow the glue to get up the side as you drive it in. (Remember when there were complaints this was a 'man' thing?)

[hartley353]

Is it a mirror plate

[PanBiker]

I would concur with that although having said it, I have four of these holding my 1920's Oak Fire surround to the wall.

[Stanley]

Mirror brackets come in lots of sizes and are a handy thing to have around....

[Marilyn]

A foot worth of summat!
Haven't got a clue...

[Cathy]

Is it part of a longer length? Reminds me of the "stuff" that you push into a flyscreen frame to hold the flyscreen in, even tho it looks a lot more rigid.

Or is it a piece to be cut smaller (about 2"), hammered into a wall, then you insert a picture hook (for example) into it and it spreads inside the wall cavity making it stronger and less likely for the picture hook to fall out?

[Gloria]

It looks as though it has a slit in it, is it for fitting/sealing windows into caravans or horseboxes, although maybe it doesn't look wide enough. Some sort of seal though.

[PanBiker]

I think Cathy has it, it looks like original Rawlplug, cut your own length.

[rossylass]

A strip of rubber draught proofing?

[hartley353]

Looks to me like one of those plastic and wire ties for garden plants.

[Stanley]

Ian's right in that Cathy got it, it's plastic plugging for screw holes. I was looking to see if I had any original Rawlplug fibre inserts but no joy. Try this one....

[Gloria]

Looks U shaped, metal, maybe brass, for putting over an edge, perhaps of wood for decoration, the little knob looks ornate.

[PanBiker]

Is it a weight for a horizontal sliding balance?

[Gloria]

Oooo good one Panbiker, I like that.

[hartley353]

The Knob on top seems to screw off,as it has a locking ring at the base of the thread,which is reminescent of an electrical construction,but I still haven't an idea what it is.

[Stanley]

It ain't easy and nobody is anywhere near yet.....