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2281. 16" tall:

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2282. 14" tall, these are made of sheet metal and are hollow:

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2283. 11-1/2" tall, sent in by a visitor who is looking to find the purpose of this device:



There is 2-1/4" clearance between the blades and the slotted base.




Text on it reads “Made in Italy” and “Kalian – N.Y.C. 5177”.




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2284. Around 10-1/2" long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt:

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2285. Two partial shots:





























2286. 29" long:

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Answers:


2281. This was part of a display of riverboat gambling devices in a museum:

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2282. These are rivet catchers, used by riveters building ships, bridges or skyscrapers to catch the white hot rivets thrown from the worker at the forge:

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One can be seen very briefly at 20:10 in this video on the Empire State Building:


























2283. Haven't yet been able to verify the purpose of this device:


































2284. A mailing machine, used to put addresses on newspapers or magazines, it has a glue roller and a blade for cutting the paper, patent number 1,513,876:

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2285. These are both Archimedes type egg beaters, they work in the same way as the Archimedes drill, if you hold the handle and move the center part up and down it causes the business end to spin:



































2286. An Edmund Draper triple armed protractor that was used by army engineers in the 1800s:

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