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2767. 12" long:
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2768. 34" diameter, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win one of their funny T-shirts:
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2769. 14" long:
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2770. 6" long:
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2771. 4" diameter:
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2772. 7" tall:
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2767. Utica No. 16 Battery Terminal Lifters, U.D.F.& T.C., Utica, N.Y.:
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2768. This is a millstone that was made in Iowa:
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Another millstone was also on display, this one is made from red granite and was cut from a drift boulder in the 1880s:
2769. A pistol shooting rest:
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2770. This is most likely a device to check the shooting position of a handgun shooter (showing slightest movements of the gun hand/arm). Brevet is the French word for patent.
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2771. A bee feeding cup:
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2772. A powder keg style canteen that was carried by a Confederate soldier during the Civil War:
Update:
2766. A Body Post Marker, these are used to mark an RC car body shell for accurate alignment.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
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2769 a benchrest for adjusting the sight of a handgung (pistol)
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2770. looks like a device to check the shooting position of a handgun shooter... (showing slightes movements of the gun hand/arm)
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2771 a perfume container?
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2768 A millstone.
ReplyDelete2770 Looks like a refractometer. FYI 'Brevet' is French for 'Patented'.
ReplyDelete2769 looks to me like a model. maybe a model of a scale.
ReplyDelete2767 Possibly a 'Steeldraulic' brake-adjuster tool.
ReplyDelete2767 spreader to open chain links
ReplyDelete2769 rifle rest for bench-rest rifle shooting
2768 somekind of burr or mill stone
2771 glass lamp globe
2772 salt shaker perhaps. it looks small.
2770 precision refractive magnetometer for dowsing for water.