MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Cathy]

For newspapers? I think they called it ‘cold’ something.

[Stanley]

You are so close Cathy I am going to give it to you, you've done all the work! It's the keyboard of a hot metal typesetting machine which cast each letter from molten metal. The trade name was 'Lynotype'. (LINK)
Well done! Next one?

[Tizer]

Well done, Cathy - have you worked in printing?

Now, how about this for a quick response to Stanley's `Next please'? What is this pic all about?

[Cathy]

Have I worked in Printing? No, but my ex-husband was a Printer, I must have remembered something from that time.

[Cathy]

Is that the big man we are all waiting for?

[Tizer]

I don't think so, but which big man do you mean, Cathy?

[Cathy]

I saw red and white and thought Santa

[Tizer]

Ah, right, that's a good guess, I can see why you thought that - but wrong answer!

[Stanley]

It's specialised trailer. Is it the delivery of a military statue to a museum?

[plaques]

I would have thought that any museum piece would have been crated up with a lot better protection. I looks too lightweight to be solid anything, possibly fibreglass or multiple pipework. So after all this' I don't know?

[Tizer]

It's not a stone statue.

[Stanley]

Does that imply that it is a statue? Fibre glass representation of a figure in military uniform then?
The shape of the base puzzles me, why so much of it behind him?

[chinatyke]

The shape of the base puzzles me, why so much of it behind him?

I didn't notice that. Is he kneeling down?

[Marilyn]

A knight?

[Cathy]

A Lobster / Crayfish / Prawn ?

[Stanley]

I think Tiz has us baffled!

[Gloria]

A pump?

[Stanley]

I can see why you said that Gloria! I was puzzling over that raised arm as well. An interesting suggestion....

[Gloria]

It's certainly got us puzzling Stanley.

[Wendyf]

If that is an arm sticking out the angle suggests it should be holding or supported by something.

[Tizer]

That's got you all going! In answer to your suggestions:
We wouldn't normally call it a statue.
It's not fibre glass.
Its isn't a Lobster / Crayfish / Prawn or pump.
He isn't kneeling down (yes, it is a `he' not an `it'.)
Yes, there is an arm sticking out.

Keep thinking!

[Cathy]

Is that a prison or a sports ground , I can see what looks like barbed wire on top of the fence.
Is it a sporting mascot?

[Gloria]

Stanley Matthews?

[Tizer]

Nothing to do with sport - and definitely not Stanley Matthews. In his time he would have been more famous even than Stanley Matthews!

[chinatyke]

Is it a Roman Emperor? Caesar?