Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 20 Feb 2022, 12:33
It doesn’t look like it belongs in a shed, does it belong in a kitchen 
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 20 Feb 2022, 13:11
That's where it lived in the 1930s Cathy, in the kitchen.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 21 Feb 2022, 06:58
Very strange, why would they bother to put a lid on it, when it’s open at the front.
Stoneware salt container
Stoneware salt container
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 21 Feb 2022, 07:38
Not salt Cathy but you're right, it had a very specific purpose. Clue, we wouldn't consider it today.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 21 Feb 2022, 10:19
Oh dear, lard is all I can think of.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 21 Feb 2022, 10:27
For keeping food/milk cool?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 21 Feb 2022, 12:11
No Peter. Clue, it was connected with concerns about health.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 21 Feb 2022, 13:34
For storing malt and cod liver oil?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 21 Feb 2022, 14:04
Was it for administering some kind of "beneficial" vapour?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 21 Feb 2022, 14:52
Sorry no Gloria. Ian is getting very close with his beneficial vapour but it wasn't vapour..... Remember the clue, very popular in the 1920s and 30s but wouldn't be given house room now.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 04:49
You are all stuck on this one and need some serious clues! Not beneficial vapour but this container was dispensing water treated with the latest medical fad in the 1930s. It was actually extremely dangerous!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 08:19
Morphine or arsenic? Just guessing really.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 12:43
Radium water jar.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 13:26
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 17:41
The inscription reads Hotel Telephone but it's a Hydrogen lamp. Maybe it was used to illuminate a telephone booth in said establishment?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 Feb 2022, 03:34
I have to give it to you Ian. It's a Dobereiner's Lamp . See THIS Wikipedia article. Claimed by many to be the world's first cigarette lighter.
Next one?
Next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 25 Feb 2022, 05:34
What is this?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 25 Feb 2022, 08:34
A honing tool?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Feb 2022, 03:43
Sorry Gloria, no. Clue, it's part of a steam engine.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Feb 2022, 08:17
That’s me stumped then.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Feb 2022, 08:28
Gloria. Have look at this.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Feb 2022, 08:29
Gloria. Have look at this.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Feb 2022, 08:41
You've got there, It's one of the Corliss valves from the HP cylinder at Bancroft. I'm going to bed for second sleep but want to leave you another object....
What is it?
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Feb 2022, 12:26
Is it an old version of the standard kilogram weight (mass) or something similar?