Set 439

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2545. 5" long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt:

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2546. Sent in by a visitor who is looking to find the purpose of this item:

























2547. Around 1" diameter:

























2548. Sent in by someone who would like to know if this tool is for a specific use:




























2549. Circa 1900, someone found this along the bank of the Ashuelot River in New Hampshire:


























2550. Another unidentified tool:

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545. This is an early European jailer's key pistol, it was probably fired by touching a cigar to the small hole in the top of it:

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2546. A laboratory device for demonstrating electrolysis, as seen in the video below, you could skip the first 55 seconds:



























2547. Imperfect coins at the mint are put through high pressure rollers to cancel them, the result is a waffle coin like this one:

























2548. This is a Terrex Autospade or backsaver, patent number 2,751,192:




























2549. A cigar shaped whiskey sampler, or whiskey flask, these were made to sell to saloons who would put their names on them with a paper label to advertise their business.


























2550. No answer yet for this tool:

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