Wotizit?
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Re: Wotizit?
A golf club for a very small child, or a portable spindle for opening doors when the door handle has been removed?
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All my life I have tried multiplying really large numbers by zero.
That amounted to nothing.
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Re: Wotizit?
I should give some indication of scale. It's about 100mm long.
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A tool for cleaning the bowl of a (smoker's) pipe and/or for deep-cleaning your ears.
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OK, revised view is that it's a back-scratcher.
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Alan wrote that it's about 100 mm = 10 cm = 4 inches long; that's a bit on the short side for a back-scratcher - unless it's a back-scratcher for a small animal, of course.
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Is it a key or lock pick tool
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Okay Alan; It's been two weeks now. Will you tell us what the tool is/was used for?AlanMiller wrote:My father found this amongst family artifacts. Finally found out what it is.
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Re: Wotizit?
Anyone knows, it's a small child's golf putter.
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I have similar utensils in my grandmother'sHansV wrote:Or a spoon for Almas caviar...
sterling cupboard, but do not have this particular one. I like the caviar idea
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Is it something used to tap open soft boiled eggs? I know I'm stretching on that one
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Re: Wotizit?
It looks like a medical implement to me, maybe for removing foreign bodies from orifices.
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At first, some weeks ago, I thought, same as you, something used by a dentist. But then it seems to be too short, 10 cm. Perhaps the tools were shorter back in the old days; nah, I don't think so.Hey Jude wrote:so what is it please?
And about the same time, very early, my second thought (or the first, I don't remember
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Well I'm glad to say I have no frame of reference for this utensil hehe...congrats!!!
I never would have guessed the specific use.
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Thank you!
I have a funny feeling my grand-dad had one - maybe my ex-father-in-law? - I've certainly seen something very similar before. I got fed up with waiting for Alan, so a Google Images search for 'pipe bowl scraper' and it comes back as the first hit...
I have a funny feeling my grand-dad had one - maybe my ex-father-in-law? - I've certainly seen something very similar before. I got fed up with waiting for Alan, so a Google Images search for 'pipe bowl scraper' and it comes back as the first hit...
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Very clever you are :-) I have an antique pipe stand lined with hand hewn copper, but no utensils and no pipe smokers that I am aware of in my family. You did very well haha!Leif wrote:Thank you!
I have a funny feeling my grand-dad had one - maybe my ex-father-in-law? - I've certainly seen something very similar before. I got fed up with waiting for Alan, so a Google Images search for 'pipe bowl scraper' and it comes back as the first hit...
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