Set 421

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2437. 10" long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt:































2438. 15" long:



























2439. 8" long:

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2440. 60" tall:


























2441. 7" long:



























2442. 24" long:

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2437. A Holmes Steering Gear Clamp for towing automobiles,

"...adapted to engage both the front axle of the automobile and the connecting rod which links together the spindle arms of the front wheels so that the connection rod can be held rigidly to the axle in such position as to maintain the front wheel parallel for the purposes of enabling the disabled automobile to be towed backwards with the rear end off the ground."

Patent number 1,750,599







































2438. A Crash Axe, for use by firemen or other rescue workers, originally designed for emergency use on airplanes.



























2439. A mounting peg for a glass insulator on a telephone pole:





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2440. A gas powered water heater:



The one in the photo above was missing the copper tubing inside:



Patent number 1,217,133:


























2441. No solid answer yet for this item, looks like it was used to adjust the height of something:



























2442. A wire fence stretcher, patent number 598,526:





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Set 420

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2431. 1-1/2" long:

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2432. About 12" long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt:

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2433. 9-1/2" long:




























2434. 7-1/2" long:


























2435. 16" long:



































2436. Around 5" diameter:





















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2431. A woodworker's gauge for marking dovetails on a piece of wood:

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2432. A Yankee Cork Press, for compressing corks to the proper size to fit into a bottle, patent number 602,839:

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2433. An egg cracker, it's placed over an egg and the ball is dropped to crack it:




























2434. A can opener, the point is pushed into the center of the lid, the tool is then pivoted down so it's parallel to the top of the can, the round blade is moved to position it at the can rim, downward pressure will now puncture the can at the rim, continued puncturing in this manner will open the can.


























2435. This tool was most likely used to form light gauge sheet metal, possibly for crimping a seam when doing roofing work or bending sheet metal to make a particular shape.



































2436. Someone sent this item in, at first we thought it was a salesman's sample tire, turns out that it's actually a Firestone ashtray that's missing its glass or metal tray.









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Set 419

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2425. 6" long:

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2426. 1" long:

























2427. 10" long:

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2428. Around 3" long:

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2429. 34" long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt:

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2430. Around 12" tall:

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2425. A clock mainspring winder, it could also be used for removing and replacing mainsprings from the barrels of clocks, patent number 443,881:

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2426. A ferrite block, also called a ferrite core, ferrite ring, frerrous bead, ferrite EMI filter, or ferrite choke, it is "a passive electric component used to suppress high frequency noise in electronic circuits." These can be found on various computer cords.

























2427. An iron shoe arm exerciser:

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2428. Looks like a someone made a belt buckle out of some old pipes:

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2429. A barbed wire salesman's cane, made of barbed wire from patent number 184,486. Text on the brass top plate reads "WATKINS LTD. ISSUE NO. 14 OF 100 A.B."

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2430. A Leitz Colorimeter, a laboratory device that was "used to determine the concentration of a known solute in a given solution by the application of the Beer-Lambert law, which states that the concentration of a solute is proportional to the absorbance." Several of them can be seen in use on this page.

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