MYSTERY OBJECTS

[chinatyke]

You are right in that it's black and made of rubber Glo but a bit small for a mud-flap. It's a bit more personal than that!

Did you put the mat on the toilet seat when using a public loo to protect your dangly bits? Ideal for when there was only one "long drop" toilet which was shared between the whole terrace and the seats were flat wooden platforms.

I'm only guessing after reading Stanley's clue.

[hartley353]

Is it to prevent oil from spraying on the genitals.

[Stanley]

You obviously need a clue. The trade name for it is 'The Bandit'.

[chinatyke]

You obviously need a clue. The trade name for it is 'The Bandit'.

You put it in the collection tray of a one-armed bandit machine so that you don't attract attention when you drop the jackpot?

Still like my long drop personal protection idea better! Perhaps it could be multi-purpose?

[Stanley]

Nowhere near. Think 'Duncan'. (This is a good one isn't it....)

[chinatyke]

Nowhere near. Think 'Duncan'. (This is a good one isn't it....)

Duncan Drisorderly? It's his personal sick bib? Sorry, running out of ideas!

Duncan Donuts maybe?

I think you have got us with this one

[Tizer]

There's a Duncan Toy Company in America that makes yo-yos (isn't Internet searching wonderful!) so it could be a means of protection from yo-yos that come adrift.

[Cathy]

Haha, glad I'm not the only one to search badly in this case. I searched Duncan 'The Bandit' and found a disco bandit, a vortex bandit and an NBA star!!

The mind boggles

[hartley353]

You rub it on your head so that you may resemble Duncan Goodhew the swimmer. Or would you widdle in it, on long journeys.

[plaques]

Reading about Stanley's unsociable habits it looks like a pouch for holding smoking materials.

[chinatyke]

Was it something you attached to your flat cap to protect the back of your neck when you was in the outback in the Australian sun?

[Stanley]

That was a good one wasn't it. Impressed by the Duncans you all found but Plaques gets the prize. He has it nailed. It's the Duncan Bandit rubber tobacco pouch. Long defunct I fear but a clever and utilitarian object that sold well for many years.
Here's an oldie to keep you going while I (or someone else!) finds a new one. Why was I interested in this?

[Bodger]

Transport> cafe> silent seventh> = free wheelers ?

[plaques]

"Silent Seventh" probably because they used these. What is it?

[chinatyke]

"Silent Seventh" probably because they used these. What is it?

It is a Duckett's original salt glazed sanitary closet. Complete with the fumes!
The object is familiar and still used when I was a kid.

Tippers, or tipplers as we called them, were a great advance in sanitary practice in their day and helped to keep the sewer pipes from blocking. I think James Duckett was probably on the cutting edge of sanitary technology at that time.

I remember the company J Duckett & Son in Burnley because I drove a taxi in the town in 1968. They also made glazed pipes and bricks in addition to sanitary ware.
There is a wonderful and interesting history of the founder of the company at this link, scroll down to James Duckett (1825-1897).

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.anc ... /6x3nl.htm

[chinatyke]

Size is approximately 34 cms/13".

What is it used for?

[Stanley]

Bodge got it first, another name was Aberdeen Overdrive.
There's still a working tippler at Clarion House Dimpenley.
China's object looks like a pickle extractor.....

[Gloria]

It's got a little face on it.

[hartley353]

To big for a twizzle stick, could be a whisk.

[chinatyke]

Yes it has little faces on it, but only for decoration.

Not there yet.

I had a good idea to spare Stanley from doing the hard work: why don't we set a rule that whoever gets the correct answer must post the next mystery object? Only a suggestion.

[plaques]

Chinatyke is spot on with the tippler. Invented by G H Pickles a Burnley corporation surveyor. The business end was usually "the long drop".

Chinatyke's mystery object, very much a guess but if you shook it up and down it would make a clattering noise like a babies rattle.

[chinatyke]

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Chinatyke's mystery object, very much a guess but if you shook it up and down it would make a clattering noise like a babies rattle.

The round objects on the business end are solid wood. They would chatter together but that isn't its function.

Clue: It is not a toy.

[Stanley]

Coat hanger for egg cosies....

[David Whipp]

For removing boiled eggs from pan?

[hartley353]

Chinese carpet beater.