MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

This is exciting no interest at all. Not surprising really because it is a mystery to me as well. I have always been a sucker for tools that I don't understand and found this in the wonderful store in Oldham that sold everything from a pin to an anchor. (I always forget the name....) I have had it for a long time but have never found out exactly what it is beyond a key for operating a very specialised fastener of some sort. If you have any ideas, let me know!

Try this one. [I know what this one is!]

[Bodger]

The second last pic. is similar to a bung removing key on 45 gall. barrels, the centre spade fits the small bung and the two outer ones fir the large one, but that depends on the size of the key in the photo

[Tizer]

Bodger may well be right. Both of them look to me like tools for opening valves on pipes.

[chinatyke]

(I always forget the name....)

Was it Williamson's?

[Stanley]

That's it China, Williamsons..... An Aladdin's cave!
Too small for barrels.
What is the last one?

[Stanley]

Not a lot of interest in this one either. Remember the days when the bonnet of a car was hinged down the middle? Some were secured by leather straps but some had catches that appeared like a square hole in an escutcheon. This was the key you used to open them.
Try this one....

[Marilyn]

Tyre pressure gauge?
( we've had this before but I can't remember)

[plaques]

( we've had this before but I can't remember)

No. but you may have seen it before. They always say that short term memory is the first to go.

[Marilyn]

Nowt wrong with the short term memory thus far (I never even misplace the car keys).
My brain just files images like that under the heading of "blokey stuff", so I don't tend to retain it.

[Stanley]

You've not seen it before and it's not a tyre pressure gauge. Clue, It's very new!

[chinatyke]

Is it one of your test pieces?

[chinatyke]

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[Stanley]

Sorry China, no, it's even more new than that! Clue, it could be a girl's best friend in the shed.....

[Big Kev]

Your new 'dresser'?

[Stanley]

You've got it Kev, its my new single point 1 carat diamond dresser for the grinding wheels. The diamond is much harder than the stones and trims them back while opening up the grit structure making the wheels much more efficient.
Next one?

[Stanley]

Try this one....

[chinatyke]

Oh Stanley, have you been playing with the big girls?

[Stanley]

That could be the size of it China but a long time ago.......

[PanBiker]

Corner fastening suspender for a mattress cover?

[Gloria]

For fastening braces??

[Stanley]

China had it spot on actually. It was given to me by a lady in California to wear as a lapel badge. I think it had significance in 80s Southern Californian culture..... (They also made a song up about me but that is a different story.....)

[Stanley]

Try this one..... All right, it's a pocket knife, one that I have been using for over 50 years. But it's specialised, what can you tell me about it?

[Gloria]

Is it a tacklers knife??

[Stanley]

Sorry, no Gloria but you are on the right lines, connected with a particular profession.

[Gloria]

Cobblers knife??