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1783. Approximately 10" long:
1784. The idea here is to describe the purpose of the box and the hollow metal piece:
1785. The top part is around 42" long:
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1786. 30" tall, submitted by a visitor who is looking to find what this cart was for:
1787. 15" long:
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1788. About 9" long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses on this one and a chance to win a T-shirt:
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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1787 is the end of a Pike Pole, sometimes called a boathook.
ReplyDeleteThe long pole it gets mounted on is broken off.
1785 is a seal press.
ReplyDelete1783: fin straightener
ReplyDelete1785: Fly press.
ReplyDelete1787: Fireman's pike.
ReplyDelete1783. A tooling chisel to make pretty decorative tooling marks on ashlars for buildings, or sometimes used as a smoothing chisel by sculptors
ReplyDelete1785. agreed, a seal press.
1788. Coffee hopper for a grinder.
ReplyDelete- Edward
1788 - rolling pin for making those square-shaped ravioli pasta
ReplyDelete1783 Stone carvers tool.
ReplyDelete1785 Fly Press probably from a jewelry or button factory.
1786 Food vendor cart.
1787 Agree with firemans pike.
1788 Holds beans above hand cranked coffee grinder.