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2359. Approximately 8" long:

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2360. About 3" diameter, someone at the flea market was selling this lock and wanted to know if it was for a particular purpose:




























2361. Around 7" long:

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2362. 72" long:

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2363. Approximately 8' long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt:

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2364. 6" long:



























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2359. A casino chip holder from the 1950s, model E-S-100, made by J.A. Ewing, Las Vegas:

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2360. A Master puck style lock, model 6270/970, made to be used with a guarded haspfor better security on trucks, vans, trailers, and gates:































2361. A tire repair tool, similar to patent number 1,632,544:

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2362. An early railroad tool for measuring rail superelevation on curves, where the outer rail would be slightly higher to compensate for centrifugal forces:

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2363. These are mortsafes, they were used in the 1800s to protect the dead from body snatchers who would sell them to medical schools, although according to urban legends they were designed to keep vampires and zombies from escaping their graves.

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2364. A German wrist restraint for use on prisoners by law enforcement officers:












































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2353. Approximately 30" diameter, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt.

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2354. This pressurized canister was shot on a country road next to some railroad tracks:

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2355. 18" long:

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2356. About 10" long:

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2357. 12" long, the only opening on this unidentified container is the hole with the sliding door:

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2358. 28" long:

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2353. This is a corn sheller, text on the back reads "Made and sold by G. Evans, Pittsburgh", the other side is hollow so it's not as heavy as it looks, and there is a handle on the back to make it rotate.

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To use it, ears of corn were dropped down this tapered chute and the spinning disk would quickly remove the kernels.
































2354. This device pressurizes underground telephone cables with air or nitrogen so that if they are slightly nicked or damaged the pressure keeps water from flowing into the cables.

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2355. Part of an old Planet Jr. Cultivator or wheel hoe for use in a garden:

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2356. A Casella sunshine recorder, it has a clockwork mechanism that rotates the drum once in 24 hours, the sunlight is recorded with a pen that is driven by a mechanical linkage from a bi-metallic strip inside of the dome.

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2357. Still not sure about this item, possibly a bee swarm catcher, with some type of attractant used in the tubes.

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2358. Tank treads from an M-48 tank:

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2347. Approximately 48" long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt:

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2348. 12" long, submitted by a visitor who would like to find the purpose of this device, text on it reads "Bell & Howell Company Chicago, U.S.A. Standard Cinemachinery":








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2349. 5' tall, very heavy, round on one side:




























2350. Sent in by a visitor who would like to know if these pliers are for a particular purpose, the ends of the handles each have a different shape for prying as seen in the larger image, text on it says "Changeable Tool":

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2351. 11" long, yet another tool that was sent in by a visitor who is looking to identify it:

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2352. Give a single word that best describes this construction:

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2347. A spar torpedo that was designed to be rammed into the hull of an enemy ship, and then detonated by a line from the torpedo to the submarine. From the CSS H. L. Hunley Civil War Submarine Replica, the original torpedo was detonated when attacking and sinking the Housatonic in 1864, the Hunley itself sank shortly thereafter for unknown reasons.

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2348. An old movie projector bulb holder used to isolate the heat of the bulb from the socket so the projectionist could change out blown bulbs in a hurry by giving him a cooler place to grab onto.




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2349. A tinsmith's stovepipe anvil:




























2350. A combination tool that was made to use several interchangeable heads, patent number 791,917. A photo of this tool in its original box with all the attachments can be seen here under the heading of patent pictures.

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2351. A Morse Taper Key for use by a machinist to remove chucks and tooling.

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2352. On this web site they refer to it as an abatis, though these structures were also called palisades.

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