MYSTERY OBJECTS

[PanBiker]

Is he a money box?

[Tizer]

That's his purpose in life, Ian. Any guesses as to how he does it?

[PanBiker]

Cant really tell from the photo but I bet he rings his bell.

[Wendyf]

Does he put the money down the chimney while he raises the other arm to ring his bell?

[Stanley]

I am agog......
Thanks for the pic of Bee and me P. That cheered me up. A lovely lass, one of my students and we are still talking to each other...... Lots of happy memories...

[Tizer]

I think you all deserve the full story now. It would be easier to say what this Santa doesn't do than what he does! The box tells the story. I still don't know for sure where the money goes but Wendy is probably right in suggesting you drop coins down the chimney. Perhaps Theresa May with have an `initiative' to give these out to children to have them start saving for their pension, care and nursing in old age!

[Stanley]

Every house should have one!

[Stanley]

Try this one......

[Tizer]

Part of a garden ornament?

[chinatyke]

It's a tundish for the treacle miners at Sabden.

Is it something to do with lead pouring/wiping?

Had another thought and realised that there are 4 lobes on it. I've an idea we've seen it before and it was something to do with a milking machine.

[Stanley]

I have an idea that Maz might like to judge this one.....

[Marilyn]

When I saw the photo I thought "that's one of mine"!
( then I thought...s&/t!...what WAS it?)
But...was it a "milk cup cleaner"?

[Tizer]

Haha, if you don't know, Maz, maybe none of us knows its identity!

[Marilyn]

It was a dairy "milk cup cleaner".

[Stanley]

Her memory hasn't failed her. It was part of the stand on which the milking cluster hung when not in use.
Next for shaving?

[Stanley]

Try this oldie, it's very small, less than half an inch in diameter and made of bronze.......

[Cathy]

Is it a weight maybe to be used with old fashioned scales?

[Tizer]

A nozzle for some device or on a gas pipe?

[Stanley]

Sorry no. Yes it looks like an olive for a pipe joint but nothing to do that. Forget pipes, think specialised bearings...... you have all seen them......

[Gloria]

Is it off a sink tap or a door handle??

[Tizer]

Some kind of switch - the lever would sit in the hole in the top of the bronze item?

[Stanley]

Gloria is in the right area with doors. Concentrate on that and think of old cars. I shall come clean tomorrow if you don't get it. They were in full view and you've all seen them.

[chinatyke]

We've seen it before and I remember what it is. Smug feeling! I won't spoil it.

[Stanley]

Good memory China. But we have all seen them in real life..... Take note of the clues!

[Gloria]

Is it on the handle to wind windows up??