Thursday, January 17, 2013

Set 476

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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:









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2766. A Body Post Marker, these are used to mark an RC car body shell for accurate alignment.

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8 comments:

  1. 2769 a benchrest for adjusting the sight of a handgung (pistol)
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  2. 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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  3. 2771 a perfume container?
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  4. 2770 Looks like a refractometer. FYI 'Brevet' is French for 'Patented'.

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  5. 2769 looks to me like a model. maybe a model of a scale.

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  6. 2767 Possibly a 'Steeldraulic' brake-adjuster tool.

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  7. 2767 spreader to open chain links

    2769 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.

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