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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 29 Dec 2021, 04:26
by Stanley
Try shoving a feather into the oil!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 29 Dec 2021, 09:03
by Gloria
Giving something a light feather dusting of oil? Something in a weaving or spinning mill. But I’ve no idea what.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 29 Dec 2021, 09:13
by Gloria
How about a McCoy drip cup…….
“Elijah McCoy, who you may be familiar with from the expression “the real McCoy,” was a Canadian-born African-American inventor and engineer. In 1872, McCoy invented an automatic lubricator that was used to apply oil through a drip cup to locomotive and ship steam engines. He patented this device as an “Improvement in Lubricators for Steam-Engines.””
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 29 Dec 2021, 12:31
by Stanley
I think you are near enough Gloria. It was hung on a loom with a piece of wire and used for putting a drop of oil on the rod the picking leather slid on.
Here's a reference to your McCoy oiling system and its possibly being the origin of the phrase 'The Real McCoy', although there are several more.....
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 30 Dec 2021, 03:50
by Stanley
What are these?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 30 Dec 2021, 12:35
by Big Kev
Livestock castration?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 30 Dec 2021, 12:48
by Cathy
Steeplejack equipment
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 31 Dec 2021, 04:44
by Stanley
Kev has it straight away Cathy. Clamps for castration of bullocks and horses using a hot iron.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 31 Dec 2021, 08:24
by Big Kev
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What and where? (a rough location will do).
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 31 Dec 2021, 10:28
by Tizer
I know what but not where.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 31 Dec 2021, 15:29
by Big Kev
Tizer wrote: ↑31 Dec 2021, 10:28
I know what but not where.
I reckon you're the only one
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 01 Jan 2022, 04:07
by Stanley
The inscription gives it away denoting which Act of Parliament authorised it. It's a Coal Post but I don't know where.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 01 Jan 2022, 08:44
by Big Kev
It is indeed a Coal Tax Obelisk. This one is in Crayford, Kent just off Thames road, North of the River Stanham and East of the railway line. For those who don't know (I didn't) Coal-tax posts/Obelisks are boundary marker posts found in southern England. They were erected in the 1860s and form an irregular loop between 12 and 18 miles from London to mark the points where taxes on coal were due to the Corporation of London. There were originally around 280 posts of which around 210 remain.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Jan 2022, 04:36
by Stanley
I didn't know about them until I saw it on here.
What is this?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Jan 2022, 10:38
by Tizer
Liz Truss with a big stick waiting for Boris Johnson to pass by?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Jan 2022, 10:51
by PanBiker
Ha, bit of a give away there Stanley. It's Pallas, Greek mythology goddess. It's a very complicated story.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Jan 2022, 11:07
by Stanley
But what is the object?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Jan 2022, 11:42
by Big Kev
It's a fire insurance plaque. Displayed on buildings, prior to a public fire service, to show they were covered by the insurance company's fire service.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Jan 2022, 04:07
by Stanley
Exactly right Kev.
Try this one.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Jan 2022, 14:59
by Big Kev
It's an azimuth mirror, sits on top of a compass so you can see the stars and the compass at the same time. I remember seeing one in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich many years ago.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Jan 2022, 03:55
by Stanley
Indeed it is Kev; Sir W Thompson's patent azimuth mirror.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Jan 2022, 05:14
by Stanley
What's the name of the iron post stuck up through the stone?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Jan 2022, 06:57
by Cathy
Is it an early bollard, or something from a war?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Jan 2022, 07:23
by Stanley
Sorry Cathy, No. It's smaller than that and for a very peaceful process.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Jan 2022, 08:22
by Gloria
It’s protruding up through a stone wheel for grinding corn?