A Weird What’s That
contests December 29th, 2009Today I have a weird What’s That item for you to chew on. It’s on loan from my brother-in-law. He doesn’t use it. He got it from a store that was going out of business. The proprietors had it hanging on a wall for decoration.
The object is very heavy and I almost chipped a tooth on it during Christmas dinner. I jokingly held it up to my mouth as though it were some kind of medieval dental device and whacked myself in the teeth. I dumb.
How to play:
Simple. First person to guess this object wins a Junk Drawer magnet and a mystery prize involving eyeballs.
What the heck is this? And lookie here. I’m even showing you scale.
This is the object fully opened.
Fully closed.
This is the business end up close.
Stumble it!
December 30th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
It looks like an antique grommet setter.
with a pen next to it 😉
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December 30th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
a shoe buttoner…for old timey shoes that had buttons and gromets. my mom used go tell me about her shoes that had these buttons. yes, i am old, and my mom was 42 when i was born…that means she wore these shoes in the early 1920’s!
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December 31st, 2009 at 5:03 pm
This doesn’t seem quite right, but I found this item and it says a boot stretcher……is that it?
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November 20th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
This definitely looks like a mid-evil torture device. It was probably used to hit people in the mouth as you found out.
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