MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Marilyn]

Flexible wedges...bang them in position and cut them off?

[Tizer]

Are they a kind of screw clip where the round part turns to screw in or out and narrow the gap? It would hold something, a plate of some kind, in the gap. Anything to do with photography?

[Stanley]

Sorry Maz, no. Tiz, you are working in the right direction but nothing to do with photography.

[Stanley]

You need a clue. Think about the previous object.......

[Stanley]

I'll have to put you out of your misery. They are small blocks made by L S Starrett. If you put them on a ruler it converts it into a shaft ruler....



Next one?

[Wrinklie]

I used to have one except it was brass and hexagonal in shape but I'm damned if I can remember what it was used for.

[Gloria]

How clever and how simple.

[Marilyn]

How many measuring devices does one man need?!

( asks the woman who owns dozens of pairs of scissors)

Hello Wrinklie...Welcome! (Most of us could come under the Wrinklie Banner)

[Stanley]

I am past wrinkle and into crumble.....
You're right Gloria, dead simple and automatically parallel with the shaft, it can't do anything else!
Maz, you can't have too many measuring and marking devices. The more you chase precision, the more you need.

Try this one, dead simple.....

[Marilyn]

It is a marker...makes a little dent.

[Stanley]

You are so close Maz I have to give it to you. It's actually a scriber with a very hard point for making lines rather then dents. That's the function of a punch.
Next for shaving?

[Stanley]

Here's an oldie for you. If you remember what they are keep stum for a while and let others play with it.....

[Stanley]

Come on you lot!

[Gloria]

A peephole??

[Cathy]

I recognized the top part as a peephole but don't recognize the back part.

[Tizer]

Is it off some kind of furnace?

[Gloria]

Is it off some kind of furnace?

Or boiler, certainly something hot????

[Stanley]

Gloria had it the first time, it's the earliest form of peephole for a door. American and from the art deco design, 1930S?
Try this, what's special about this old bottle?

[Marilyn]

Two things...firstly it has a screw top cap, and secondly I don't think it could stand upright as its base appears curved.
A "trouser pocket" bottle?

[Stanley]

Sorry Maz but no. The bottom is flat despite how the pic looks.... There is something more fundamental about it.

[Gloria]

Because of the ridges it's a poison bottle??

[Cathy]

Is it an early hot water bottle for the bed.

[Wendyf]

You just beat me to it Gloria, a poison bottle....no making mistakes in the dark.

[Marilyn]

But it's obviously not as old as it looks if it has a screw cap...

[Tizer]

I agree on the ribbed back which indicates poisonous contents. Also the brown glass may be a further indication or is to protect light-sensitive contents. Is it embrocation, liniment? Sloane's Liniment, Ellman's Embrocation...or a veterinary equivalent?