Thursday, January 3, 2013

Set 474

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2755. 7" long:

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2756. 8" long:

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2757. 14" tall:

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2758. Around 24" tall:

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2759. These are all around 6" tall, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win one of their funny T-shirts:

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2760. Sent in by a visitor who is looking to find if this tool had a particular purpose:

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2755. A Vulcan Electric Company soldering iron holder:

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2756. No answer yet for this device:

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2757. A Quik Lok Guitar Stand:

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2758. These are ladder jacks that can be used with a pair of ladders to make a scaffold:

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2759. National Cash Register grocery store price stamps from the 1920s:

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2760. This is a depth gauge, similar to the one on this page.

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The inch scale is divided into 40 increments so that measurements can be made to the nearest 25/1000.

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9 comments:

  1. 2757 a stand for a sting instument such as a guitar or a violin?
    B.

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  2. 2755 looks like part of something that heats air.
    ~Frau

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  3. 2755 - Protection for lamps (maybe for barbershop signs)

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  4. 2760: ladder brackets; used on a pair of ladders to support a plank.

    2758: Clearly a depth gauge. I'm puzzled by the units, though, which are divided into halves,quarters, eighths--and fortieths!

    ghgoebel

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  5. 2755 - Stores a hot soldering iron

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  6. 2760 - Is a depth gauge - As the needle goes down, the arrow moves to the corrisponding marks on the scale.

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  7. 2756
    A tool for stamping dice
    ~ Fräulein

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  8. 2756-
    Maybe not dice...maybe dominoes?

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