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2911. 14" long:

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2912. Sent in by a visitor who would like to find the purpose of this item:

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2913. 9" long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win one of their funny T-shirts:

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2914. 14" long:

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2915. 20" long:

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2916. 10" long:

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Answers:



2911. This is probably a woodworker's cabinet scraper, used to remove a wood shaving in a manner similar to a wood plane:

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2912. Possibly a planting tool that is missing its handle, a similar one can be seen here:

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2913. A device for singeing the last remaining feathers from a chicken. After removing most all of the feathers, there usually remained a number of small pin feathers that could have been singed off with this device. The same results were more commonly obtained by using a torch made from rolled up newspapers.

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2914. The seller of this tool said that it was an elephant trainer's hook, or ankus, but it is more likely a cargo or fish market hook, for use by warehouse workers:

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2915. The most common suggestion for this tool is that it's for cleaning or reconditioning the threads on a screw:

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The reconditioning would have been done by the two small parts indicated by the arrows:

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2916. A woodworker's bench clamp, for holding a work piece vertically:





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Update:
I received some further information on this tool from last week, it is a hops sampler, they were used for taking a parcel of hops out of the bale – a square was cut with a knife, and the sampler inserted to pull out a cube of hops.

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