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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 18 Mar 2013, 05:41
by Stanley
I'd decided it was a doorknob.... Now you have to think of another one Maz.....

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 20 Mar 2013, 03:32
by Marilyn
I am keeping an eye out for suitable things, Stanley, but nothing has grabbed me yet.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 20 Mar 2013, 05:29
by Stanley
Bugger, so iot's down to the Old Fart is it? I shall have to have a think.......

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 06:52
by Stanley
I'm still thinking......

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 07:08
by Marilyn
I am still looking too.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 21 Mar 2013, 10:33
by Gloria
I am still waiting :laugh5:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 22 Mar 2013, 06:10
by Stanley
It's all right nagging but it's hard thinking them up! Try this one....

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How come OG address is on there? (Thousands made and distributed....)

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 22 Mar 2013, 12:43
by Steeplejerk
Stanley,its a cup with your photo of the Salford rag and bone man.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 23 Mar 2013, 05:40
by Stanley
Curses! You clever bugger! Thameside did a campaign on recycling based on the old rag and bone m,en and the only image they could find was mine. They asked me how much I wanted for use of the pic but I told them nothing, just give OneGuy a plug. They put on the mugs as well. Now I'll have to stretch my brain again!
By the way, was anyone else getting anywhere near?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 23 Mar 2013, 06:45
by Stanley
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 23 Mar 2013, 08:39
by Gloria
Looks like something the tide left in.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 24 Mar 2013, 04:01
by Cathy
Something in the gutter, but what... ?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 24 Mar 2013, 04:51
by Stanley
Not quite the gutter but you are on the right track.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 24 Mar 2013, 08:55
by Gloria
Dried leaves and a cigarette??

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 24 Mar 2013, 09:16
by Marilyn
Remnants of Christmas decorations?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 25 Mar 2013, 02:36
by chinatyke
Moss and lichen growing on a wall, typically under the eaves?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 25 Mar 2013, 04:05
by Stanley
Not moss etc. China and not on walls but you are very close!

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 25 Mar 2013, 06:00
by chinatyke
Roofing felt in the rain water guttering ('cos I can't spell troffin/troughing) with some slime growing on it?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 26 Mar 2013, 05:07
by Stanley
Not there but close enough. It's a fungus that grows at the bottom of some walls on Wellhouse Street. I first drew attention to it a few years ago and it's remarkably persistent. Despite being cleared away a couple of times it has survived.
Now I'll have to think again......

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 26 Mar 2013, 05:43
by Marilyn
Fungus? Oh well, it qualifies as a mystery object as it had us baffled)

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 26 Mar 2013, 06:26
by chinatyke
Stanley wrote:Not there but close enough. It's a fungus that grows at the bottom of some walls on Wellhouse Street. I first drew attention to it a few years ago and it's remarkably persistent. Despite being cleared away a couple of times it has survived.
Now I'll have to think again......
My neighbours would be harvesting it, and either eating it or using it in Chinese Traditional medicine, send it here. :grin:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 27 Mar 2013, 05:33
by Stanley
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 27 Mar 2013, 08:56
by Marilyn
Love the shiny shoes, Stanley.
Our heads have been together looking at this. Febby thinks the object is an oil/ grease pressure pump device.
I am still deciding. As it is on your carpet am I to assume the objects around it are connected to the device?
I note the spanners that have their own place in the box, and a bit that looks like a winder, that fits in that bit over there I think and you must lever it or rotate it...but why? Then there is the pipe that looks like it belongs on a Bunsen burner.
Thinking...thinking...

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 27 Mar 2013, 09:15
by Bodger
Pressure testing pump ?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 28 Mar 2013, 04:48
by Stanley
Bodge has got it. It's a pump for hydraulically testing large boilers made by the Vulcan Insurance Company. I don't think it has ever been used. Try this one....

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PS. You can always tell a gentleman by his boots Maz!