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Who knows what this is?
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Victorian toaster ? :)
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Right you are.
Hearth Toaster circa. 1800. Bread was placed between the arches; when one side was browned, the toaster was rotated to brown the other side. Quote:
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Next item. PS had no clue.
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It almost looks like an old type of caliper ?
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This one had me stumped and even knowing the answer I still don't really get it, lol.
Finger Stretcher for the Aspiring Pianist Hailing from somewhere around 1900s, this device is painful even to look at. "According to one source, Robert Schumann permanently wrecked his right hand and ended his career using an early version of one of these contraptions." |
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Finger Stretcher ? i would not have guessed that one.
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Very early vegetable slicer?
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Correct!
VINTAGE WOOD CABBAGE SHREDDER SLICER Vegetable Cutter 1900'S Quote:
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wd admin :)
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Bed knob ? :)
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Nope.
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A plumb-bob
But the threads on the end would make me think it's a sctatch awl from an old measuring tool... Many had them attached so you could make a mark where needed... |
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Correct. It does seem a little too fancy to be just a plumb bob.
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itisjust4fun got a good memory for there age then :)
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