Thursday, May 21, 2009

Modern Mystery

I've got all sorts of medieval things in the works ... but none of them are ready for the light of day. So as a diversion, I present you with a modern mystery object.


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I really don't know what this thing is - my best (and obviously inaccurate) guess is that it's a cow-lip-stretcher.


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It's about 6" long, appears to be cast stainless steel, and was manufactured in the early-to-mid 1900s. It has no identifying markings. It may have been farm-related (our family had a farm in the distant past, and I think that's where my dad got it).


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My brother thinks it was used for skinning animals. I like the cow-lip-stretcher idea better.


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My apologies for the poor quality of the images - I took them with my cell phone camera in poor light.


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Anyone out there seen one of these before?





1 comment:

roccermom said...

Yankee magazine used to have a column exactly for this kind of thing, and i swear i have seen that thing featured, or something very nearly like it. i am racking my brain to try and remember what the article was called, it appeared in every issue before the make-over a few years back...