MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Big Kev]

Apple corer and slicer?

[Stanley]

Curses, he got it!



OK. Try this.....

[Steeplejerk]

I think I know

[Stanley]

That doesn't surprise me Tom, it's definitely part of your world..... Let them guess at it!

[Gloria]

An aerial?

[Stanley]

No Glori9a but I can see why you thought that. Look at the size of it.....

[Big Kev]

Is it to keep pigeons off of ledges?

[Stanley]

He's done it again.
All right, what's this?

[Tizer]

It won't surprise you to hear that I know what it is. I have one in my collection. But I'll leave it to others to respond!

[Tizer]

Is it to keep pigeons off of ledges?

Kev, please no, don't succumb to the US horror!

[Big Kev]

Is it to keep pigeons off of ledges?

Kev, please no, don't succumb to the US horror!

It's become a habit when posting on Facebook, the illiterati can't differentiate and will often replace one with the other. Using both confuses them immensely.

[Stanley]

Well done Peter! No, I am not surprised!
Come on the rest of you! What is it?
(PS. I agree with Peter Kev, please don't give that usage house room!)

[Stanley]

You'd better tell them what it is Peter. Nobody is taking it on.

[Tizer]

The most likely identity is rutilated quartz. A quartz crystal in which black needle-like crystals of rutile have grown from a single point. Rutile is titanium dioxide, TiO2, which occurs in various colours such as black, red and yellow.

[Stanley]

I have to take that as the answer. It was described as ghost quartz on the site where I found it.

[Tizer]

The term ghost quartz implies clear transparent quartz with something visible inside it. So your pic shows one specific type of that. Some people collect only crystals with other materials inside them.

[Cathy]

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Does anyone know what these are?

[Stanley]

Pie dishes Cathy. You use the arm to separate the base from the tin after baking.

[Cathy]

Hmpfh… Haha.
You’re only the second person I have shown these to, and you both got it right straight away.
I hadn’t seen them before, and thought them quite clever.

[Stanley]

It can be like that Cathy! Think up another....

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Cathy]

I’m not going there

[Stanley]

You have a suspicious mind Cathy!

[Gloria]

A belt for carrying tools whilst working? A steepljack perhaps?

[Steeplejerk]

Think I saw a similar belt in the film "jaws"