MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Gloria]

Are they for pulling a firing pin out?

[Stanley]

Wendy has got it. They are piano wire cutters. Any attempt to cut piano wire with ordinary wire cutters will destroy the blades, the wire is so hard. These blades are pot hard and very tough, they will cut the heaviest piano wire with no trouble at all.
Next one for shaving?

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Wendyf]

Very familiar.

[Stanley]

Thought it might be....

[Gloria]

Very, very familiar Wendy

[Stanley]

Those two know you know. If nobody else volunteers please will one of you knock it on the head?

[Wendyf]

It's called a buffer, used to cut the clenches (or clinches) before removing a horseshoe. The clenches are formed by bending the ends of the nails back where they protrude through the hoof wall to provide an anchor for the shoe.

[Stanley]

Exactly right and I know Gloria will agree. Any thoughts on a new object?

[plaques]

Exactly right and I know Gloria will agree.

They gave it away themselves. Two ladies with a big interest in horses identified a multi tool immediately that was obviously some sort of hammer. A quick google on farrier tools found its proper name.

[Stanley]

How about a new one then?

[plaques]

How about this then..Yes its a rabbit but a rather special rabbit. What makes it special and what would its value be?

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[Big Kev]

Is it a Pendelfin?

[Stanley]

I had to look that up. He's right isn't he. Sure sign of a misspent youth spent in whatnot shops I reckon......

[plaques]

Kev has got the starter for 10. Pendelfin. I'm now looking for some of the background and why I have posted this particular rabbit.

[Wendyf]

He is one of the original and rarest of rabbits from the 1950s called Dungaree Father....or is he? I'm not sure now.

[Big Kev]

Was there only a short production run for it? I found an Ebay listing for one and they were asking £1200.

[Cathy]

$2,116.24 Far-out.

[PanBiker]

Sally used to have quite a big collection, mainly the late 60 and early 70's models. I think she sold them all a few years ago. Come to think about it, we may still have a "favourite" knocking about somewhere.

[plaques]

He is one of the original and rarest of rabbits from the 1950s called Dungaree Father....or is he? I'm not sure now.

My apologies Wendy I posted early this morning but its disappeared in the ether. You are quite right. an original Father Rabbit.

Mrs P's sister was good friends with Jean Walmsley Heap and Jeannie Todd and helped with some of the original models She gave one to her mother and later it became Mrs P's. Much later we became neighbours to Arthur and Pauleen Morley who were managing the Pendelfin business and when he saw the 'Father' he said don't sell that it will be worth £thousands later. He said the necks were too thin and the heads dropped off. They modified the mould so all subsequent ones were different which added to the rarity.
The photo shows one on e-bay at £1250.

[Stanley]

We seem to have sorted that one so is it all right if I post another object?
I'll assume the answer is yes.



What is it?

[PanBiker]

Calligraphy pen?

[Stanley]

Sorry Ian but no.

[Big Kev]

A knife?

[Stanley]

It could be described as that Kev, but what was it used for?