Once again I have assembled a collection of strange and marvelous artifacts from days gone by. Can you identify any of them...?
I might have seen one of these as a kid.
Can't remember what it was for...
something in the kitchen maybe...?
This is an octopus defibrillator....
This is the commode located under the hood
of a 1956 Volvo 5 cyclinder
Furfenuggrn.
M has one and was kind enough to let me use it.
This is a shoe thing.
It's not a meat grinder or a can opener.
Given the brand it must be a sewing thing.
No friggin idea...?
The last one is used for cutting plugs of chewing tobacco in stores.
ReplyDeleteFirst one looks like a axle cap for spoked auto wheels. 2nd is a bone saw. 4th looks like its used to pink fabric edges..or for pastas like ravioli. Singer made way more than sewing stuff.
ReplyDeleteThe wife unit says the singer piece is a pinking shear.
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forgot to add the third one is an oil bath air cleaner
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Stuart beat me to it!
ReplyDeleteYup, a tobacco plug cutter. TB The Elder has one as well.
1st one is nut for knock off wheels, instead of lug nuts. Guessing Jag, early Corvettes offered knock offs, too. I could identify oil bath air cleaner and cobbler's anvil, but have no clue re rest of them.
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"Knock-off..." That was the term I couldn't remember... Spin-on was the best I could do...
Delete1. "Spin-on" wheel lug; I'm thinking for an MG.
ReplyDelete2. HellifIknow! I notice it has a depth gauge on the back side of it. The last time I saw something like that was on an old adjustable bread knife.
3. Oil bath air cleaner.
4. Can't remember what they're called, but they're used for making shoes. Cobbler's anvil, I think...
5. Used for "pinking" (cutting) cloth.
6. Doesn't the Mafia use those when they want to cut off a finger?...
Second one is a can opener.
ReplyDelete#3 not from a Volvo.... it is an oil bath air filter for a mid 70s Dodge pickup.
ReplyDeleteJaguar, Steampunk, oil bath air filter, cobbler's tools.
ReplyDeleteLost story short, my grandfather was an Italian immigrant to U.S. and trained himself to be a cobbler, later to become a mattress maker.
Number 4 is a Shoe Last (sometimes called a cobbler's anvil). They were used in shoe making and shoe repair.
ReplyDeleteMy old '73 VW Thing has an oil bath filter as did many cars and trucks I grew up with (we always had older ones 50's-70's LOL).
Not to be contradictory, Jeffery but, yes that is a cobblers anvil but, it is definitely not a shoe last. A shoe last is typically a wooden form of a foot. The shoemaker then meticulously measures your foot (when ordering custom built shoes) and then carves the last to those measurements. The shoemaker then builds your custom shoes around the last. My exBIL apprenticed under Charlie Dunn the "Michelangelo" of cowboy boots. ExBIL took me into Charlie's shop in Austin, TX in 1978. He had all the lasts from years of bootmaking hanging from the ceiling. Hundreds of them, all with the owners name written on them. That was an impressive "list" of politicians, movie stars and assorted "people we should know".
DeleteThe name of the shoemaker gizmo was the last thing that popped into my mind. :)
ReplyDeleteSometimes I have to come look again.. The Kindle doesn't show pictures so well,, I Finally saw the hinge on the tobacco cutter,, now it makes sense.
ReplyDeleteThe bone saw,, Damm,, pretty much Steam Punk looking thing..
Does it have a loop for a sling?
And then,, looking at That, it hit me, it Looks like the handle is bone..
So the idea is
Hold this round handle which surely won't be slick with blood
Crank that handle
Which surely won't drive the cutting action back and forth
I can hear someone screaming
Stop! Quit Helping me!