Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 Feb 2025, 04:38
What is it?
What is it?
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MYSTERY OBJECTS
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What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 Feb 2025, 08:39
Is it anything to do with trawler fishing?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 Feb 2025, 09:59
Well done Gloria, you're on it! Now, what's it called.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 Feb 2025, 13:16
Don’t know what it’s called, but it’s attached to the nets on trawlers.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 Feb 2025, 15:35
I'm with Gloria. Keeps the leading edge of the net on the sea bed?
Otter board?
Otter board?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 25 Feb 2025, 03:08
Good! Between you you have got it. Otter Board is the right answer.....
Next object?
Next object?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 25 Feb 2025, 15:33
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 25 Feb 2025, 16:58
Plectrum?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 25 Feb 2025, 17:45
Is it to keep a sailing boat in a straight line?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Feb 2025, 03:17
Alee board.... That didn't last long!
I can see why you thought that Gloria, sorry I thought the scale was obvious from the context....
I can see why you thought that Gloria, sorry I thought the scale was obvious from the context....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Feb 2025, 08:40
I didn’t fully see the content of the pic, I saw bits of wood and string 
. Oh dear, as my reports used to say……Gloria could try harder.
. Oh dear, as my reports used to say……Gloria could try harder.Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Feb 2025, 09:32
Stop beating yourself up! 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Feb 2025, 03:50
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Feb 2025, 07:00
Is it for measuring a chain?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Feb 2025, 07:01
Yes Wendy, a surveyors chain. 22 yards in old money.
Next object?
Next object?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Feb 2025, 10:01
This will probably be a quickie.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Feb 2025, 10:42
Mmmm? An Auctioneer’s Gavel (Hammer) ? 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Feb 2025, 11:32
No Cathy, not one of those.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Feb 2025, 11:37
Is it a hammer for embossing paper using a punch?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Feb 2025, 11:54
No it's not.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Feb 2025, 11:57
Whatever it is it's nicely made.....
Is the fact it's displayed on a piece of card anything to do with its function?
Is the fact it's displayed on a piece of card anything to do with its function?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Feb 2025, 12:22
No, just there to provide contrast.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Feb 2025, 12:30
Is it something that would come in handy if you were working with archival documents?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Feb 2025, 12:36
It wouldn't Stanley.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Feb 2025, 12:41
Could it be a film canister