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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Nov 2017, 18:33
by Wendyf
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Nov 2017, 04:44
by Stanley
I can't remember where I got the image.....
David, I know all about Blanco! Horrible stuff but it did look smart when done properly. The Tank Corps were always round oil which is death to Blanco so they used black boot polish on their webbing.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Nov 2017, 13:29
by Tripps
Get the cigar ready -
I've had some spooky coincidences on this site, but this one beats them all. I think I've found the mystery building.
I find that I've walked past it dozens of times, and my family two generations back lived just at the other end of the road. I have a print of an LS Lowery painting of the road. I have two books for which it is the title, and a list of every resident from the 1911 census.
Watch this space.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Nov 2017, 14:37
by Wendyf
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Nov 2017, 15:52
by Tripps
I hope I haven't oversold it - here's the picture.
old road coop.jpg
Here's the details,
old road details.jpg
and here's the LS Lowery,
oldroadlowery.jpg
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Nov 2017, 17:01
by Wendyf
Great detective work Tripps! You were almost right with the first photo as well. I think you deserve a cigar and a wee dram.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Nov 2017, 17:02
by Gloria
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Nov 2017, 17:43
by plaques
Fantastic Tripps, but just answer this "what am I going to do with the rest of the night"?
Failsworth Co op..jpg
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Nov 2017, 01:29
by chinatyke
Well done.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Nov 2017, 04:32
by Stanley
Yet another example of the power of OG! Thanks David, that particular itch is well and truly scratched! Now I'm wondering where I got it from!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Nov 2017, 06:46
by Stanley
Try this one.....
Can anyone tell me what this is?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Nov 2017, 04:57
by Stanley
Hello?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Nov 2017, 06:12
by chinatyke
It looks to be daisy-chained or plaited. Is it raw silk?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Nov 2017, 06:59
by Stanley
You're almost there China! It's cotton. The question is why?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Nov 2017, 07:21
by Marilyn
Surgical packing? (For packing wounds)
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Nov 2017, 09:17
by chinatyke
Stanley wrote: ↑09 Nov 2017, 06:59
You're almost there China! It's cotton. The question is why?
Actually I'd decided it wasn't silk because you can see what look like cotton seeds.
To go into a package machine for bleaching and dyeing?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Nov 2017, 09:27
by Tizer
To make a court judge's wig? Or is it the wig for Princess Leia in the Star Wars re-make where she becomes a grey-haired granny?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Nov 2017, 05:32
by Stanley
China is so close I have to give it to him. It's a 'chain warp' made at Ellenroad and was sent out like this for finishing and dying in a continuous process before being rewound as individual threads for shuttle packages. I found it in the office and decided it was too good to be broken up for waste for wiping down. They will be thin on the ground now!
Next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Nov 2017, 05:24
by Stanley
Try this one.....

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Nov 2017, 06:16
by Cathy
Is it a crumb tray that slides out of the bottom of a toaster?
(Pretty old toaster, mind. Haha.)
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Nov 2017, 06:53
by Stanley
Bugger! You got it straight away Cathy! I shall have to have a think now!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Nov 2017, 08:10
by Cathy
Hehe

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Nov 2017, 11:18
by Tizer
How about this one? (Plaques, no cheating by automated image searching on Google!)

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Nov 2017, 16:13
by chinatyke
It looks like an instrument for spreading or opening something, bit it looks too crude to be a surgical or dental instrument. Could it be for grasping something? An animal's tongue perhaps? So a vetinary instrument?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Nov 2017, 18:41
by plaques
Would I do anything as sneaky as that? Just because I don't know doesn't mean I always cheat. Well not always.
Looks like a portable potato waffle maker. There! I told you I didn't know.