MYSTERY OBJECTS

[plaques]

Choke button ?

[Stanley]

I don't think you are going to get this one. It's the bronze bearing that sat in the old style door hinges. The wedge shape fitted in the bottom, fixed bracket and the swinging hinge rotated on the ball at the other end. Standard fitting until the design of cars changed after WW2. Used a lot longer on hand built wagon cabs like the AEC Mercury...
Try this one....

[Steeplejerk]

I know !!

[Stanley]

Good Lad Tom! Let them have a chew on it for a day or two.....

[David Whipp]

Anchor for lightning conductor?

[Stanley]

Well done David, exactly right. Next for shaving?
I think we ought to have an informal rule that the person who gets the answer should put the next object up.....

[Tizer]

Wendy, well done for spotting Fleetwood. And I apologise to everyone for having neglected to check back on your progress - I didn't realise so much time had gone by and I wasn't on OG so often last week. To be honest, once I'd posted the photo I thought it was going to be identified immediately, not by Wendy but by that lorry driver Stanley Graham. Perhaps he didn't `do' Fleetwood on his tramps, or maybe he'd say "I was a lorry driver, not a pilot!" My main memories of Fleetwood are the Isle of Man ferry, kiosks selling kippers (were there also smokeries on the front?), a sharply shelving pebble beach and the inevitable exciting trip on the ferry to the wonders of Knott End!

[David Whipp]

This object is a mystery to me (no, it's not the £1 coin...). Hope someone has the answer!

[Stanley]

It looks to me like the metal clip on a two part telescopic wooden clothes prop. One half went through the box section, the other under the hinged clip. The longer clip tended to jam on the wood when the prop was used the right way up but collapsed to half size easily when the long clip was lifted....

[David Whipp]

Any other suggestions?

[Stanley]

Thinking again, I have an idea there was a grroove cut in the extending part for the clip to lodge in.....

[Stanley]

It looks as though the clip object has expired....
Try this one....

[David Whipp]

Hope I'm wrong - out of mystery objects...

Glass cutter.

[Gloria]

An old window handle.

[PanBiker]

It looks like some form of cutter although the rotor does not look sharp. Is it a tool for impressing a pattern on leather?

[Stanley]

I can see where all those answers came from but sorry, none of you is close. Rack your brains, you've seen it before....

[Cathy]

Pastry cutter

[PostmanPete]

Is it a stair rod for holding the carpet?

[Stanley]

I can see that it's gong to elude you, I shall come clean. I had this item for may years before I found out what it was for. It's a very clever guide for winding springs or other wire coils on the lathe. The bronze leaf shape is part of the guide which can be rotated and locked for handling different thicknesses of wire. No shame in not getting it, a very rare object.



Try this one. Beautifully made again, very complicated leverage and a polished finish. It's very old and still works perfectly......

[Gloria]

A wild guess..... An eyelet crimper?

[David Whipp]

Riveter?

[Stanley]

Gloria, very close indeed but David has it right. Its for closing up solid copper rivets. It works perfectly and has lots of adjustments so you can get them dead right.
Next for shaving?

[Stanley]

Come on you lot! Rack your brains!

[Stanley]

All right.... I give in. Try this one!

[plaques]

Putting name tags on elephants ears?