Thursday, February 4, 2010

Set 322

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1843. 1-3/8" long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses on this one and a chance to win a T-shirt:

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1844. 6" long:

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1845. 10" long, over 3000 years old:























1846. 3-1/2" long:
























1847. Sent in by a visitor who is looking to find the purpose for this device, text on the left side says 'minus', and on the right 'plus', both sides have increments from 0 to 500:

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1848. The upper part is approximately 24" tall:

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Answers:


1843. A probe from a policeman's Taser:

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The Taser:

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A Taser cartridge:

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An older model:


























1844. A playing card holder for two decks:

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1845. An Egyptian headrest, it was marked "New Kingdom, later Dynasty 18, 1400-1300 B.C."























1846. Part of a hay elevator and carrier, this piece of hardware was used to keep the hay fork at the desired elevation, check out figure 3 in patent number 328,896.
























1847. The most popular guess for this is that it was for keeping score in some type of game:

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1848. The bars from an old jail cell window:

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