MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Wendyf]

Is it for bending copper pipe?

[PanBiker]

I'm with Wendy, pipe bending spring

[David Whipp]

Third that...

[Wendyf]

This is an object that was living in a corner of the barn when we arrived. I think it must be a tool for a stove but does anyone know what specific job it did? I have no idea. The handle is about 2ft long.

[Gloria]

A handmade "job o'purpose".

[Stanley]

Wendy was spot on, a pipe bending spring. You pop it into a pipe before you bend it and it prevents the walls from deforming too much.
The rake like object could be used for a lot of things but it's primary purpose was to drag ash out of the narrow flues above and below the oven in an old-fashioned cast iron range. They had small doors top and bottom for access.

[Stanley]

That seems to have killed that one! Anybody got the next one?

[Wendyf]

Mine wasn't really a mystery...thank you for the answer. I'll pop it back in the barn till it's needed!

[Stanley]

It was for someone who has never used one! Anyone got the next one?

[Stanley]

All right, I give in. Try this one......

[David Whipp]

A tin...

[Marilyn]

A tin...of...of...of...polish/vaseline/treacle/polyhydroxy something-or-other? No doubt evil smelling, forty years out of date, and in daily use by Stanley despite it being only prescribed for lactating cows or dying horses, and now not available on the market at all due to current health laws!

[Tizer]

Jack's dinner plate?

[Pluggy]

A tin...of...of...of...polish/vaseline/treacle/polyhydroxy something-or-other? No doubt evil smelling, forty years out of date, and in daily use by Stanley despite it being only prescribed for lactating cows or dying horses, and now not available on the market at all due to current health laws!

[Stanley]

Maz, I love it! And you are very close to the truth, used every day and definitely well out of date even by my standards.... But nobody has got it yet... (You'll kick yourselves....)

[Cathy]

Swoarfeega (sorry about spelling)

[Marilyn]

that is probably one of the diseases he would use it for, Cazza.
( and don't worry about the spelling...I've got no idea what you are trying to say!)

[Tizer]

A beer tankard turned upside down!

[PanBiker]

It's more a bottom than a lid, I think I'll concur with Tiz on this one, cant make out the markings on the bottom but maybe a pewter tankard?

[Tizer]

The markings seem to be a number and a word in upper case: WARB...

[PanBiker]

It looks like some kind of makers mark at the top with "Made in England" below and then WARRIS maybe with 5099 underneath.

I'll stick with Pewter tankard.

[Stanley]

Cathy, my Swarfega is in a modern plastic container, it's the Rosalex barrier cream that is almost as old as I am!"
You've got it, a pewter tankard, the stamp is 'Warwick' and the design number. It used to hang behind the bar at the Craven Heifer.... Now it's my petty cash holder.
Next one?

[Cathy]

Looking back Stanley your clues were a bit cryptic:)

[Marilyn]

Aye...and I have had to google Swarfega...

[Tizer]

it's an engineer's hair gel Maz!