Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 19 Oct 2025, 02:10
Well done Cathy, spot on! It's one of the ones that sits on the front of a drawer so I thought I might get away with it.... Now we need another,
What is it?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 19 Oct 2025, 02:17
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 20 Oct 2025, 03:26
No takers? You've seen it before..... Under normal circumstances highly illegal.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 21 Oct 2025, 02:05
If nobody responds by dinner time I shall knock it on the head....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 21 Oct 2025, 04:59
Is it ivory 
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??Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 21 Oct 2025, 05:06
Yes Tom! It's a mammoth ivory offcut, part of a small collection I found in an old workshop I bought. illegal to trade it but not I think to own it if it's this old....
Now we need another object.
Now we need another object.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 22 Oct 2025, 02:54
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 22 Oct 2025, 15:04
I am tempted to say spark generator but looks more a measuring device capable of finding true centres lengthways and widthways
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 22 Oct 2025, 15:14
Hard to see the size but is it for motorcycle wheel balancing?
Going off the top and second rails.
Going off the top and second rails.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 22 Oct 2025, 18:33
I'm with Ian on that 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 22 Oct 2025, 19:48
maybe not m/c but truing pedal cycle wheels ? ( a tricky task I can never do )
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 23 Oct 2025, 01:43
You've got it Ian, a jig for truing and balancing spoked wheels....
Now we need another object.
Now we need another object.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 03:03
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 09:55
A pewter cased inkwell for dip-in pens?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 14:02
Yes Kev. Well done! Now we need another object!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 14:10
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Oct 2025, 17:18
Is it some sort of cauking tool 
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??Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Oct 2025, 18:48
It looks like one of the scraper attachments for my steam cleaner.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Oct 2025, 03:06
Tom is very very close but no cigar. Think of another obsolete craft that pursues water tightness! 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Oct 2025, 06:22
Is it a tool for packing the string between the boards on the hull of a wooden boat?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Oct 2025, 08:14
Sory Kev but no. Looking at what I said before I may have led you astray.... Let me re-phrase what I said. "Think of another obsolete trade"
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Oct 2025, 10:50
Was it used in sail making?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Oct 2025, 11:52
Sorry Ian but no. The raw material was wood...... start from there.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Oct 2025, 19:29
Is it used by a Cooper??
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 28 Oct 2025, 02:41
Hee hee! You've done it again Tom. Slipped in at the last minute with the right answer.... It was used to drive the hoops down to tighten them up.
Now we need another object.
Now we need another object.