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• Russell
  November 23rd, 2006 at 10:15 am

  Is Object #2 a nail/fastener for posts?

• Armando Fontes
  November 23rd, 2006 at 10:27 am

  1 - is a object for massage
  2 - is a anchor

• Sylvain
  November 23rd, 2006 at 10:54 am

  Object #2 : Chinese steel crankiness Weapon
  often used against swords.

  proof : please see on that url
  http://cgi.ebay.com/Chinese-steel-crankiness-Weapon_W0QQitemZ330018922 321QQihZ014QQcategoryZ3631QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

• Kresimir Spes
  November 23rd, 2006 at 11:04 am

  IS object #1 a hook extender? Like you’d pull it over a hook and be able to hang 4 coats instead of one?

• silviam
  November 23rd, 2006 at 11:12 am

  Object #1:matches

• Stephanie
  November 23rd, 2006 at 11:33 am

  Is object 1 to cut long grass, or crops of some kind?

• hannah
  November 23rd, 2006 at 12:01 pm

  #1 is a ninja star…for beginners

• Mongo
  November 23rd, 2006 at 12:01 pm

  I think #2 are Chinese deerhorn knives.

• mrbingly
  November 23rd, 2006 at 12:39 pm

  they are both weapons of mass destruction.

• dj
  November 23rd, 2006 at 1:47 pm

  #1 (2 man) draw knife, slot shaver, or wood planer

  #2 hawser or some sort of tool to join two objects together so that they can be hung or dragged (logging, butchering)

• LadyLibellule
  November 23rd, 2006 at 2:36 pm

  #1 looks like it could be used for twisting/breaking something. Pieces of wood or metal, perhaps?

  #2 looks like something that helps you take your boots off (or scrape the mud off of them).

• FuzzyFuzzyBunny
  November 23rd, 2006 at 3:13 pm

  #1: Looks like it could be some kind of antique guide for a saw or knife, to create a notch in something.

  #2: Looks like something you’d nail into something else and run a line through it. (It’s hard to pinpoint this one because there’s no sense of scale…)

• Joseph Ryan
  November 23rd, 2006 at 4:53 pm

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  #1: This device is used for operating on a male animals genitals, e.g.: the device is placed over the thin connecting tissue of the male (animal(s)) scrotum (i.e., sheep [cattle etc.] etc.), between the animal(s) testicals and lower under-body, so that an individual may operate (cut) the testicals (i.e., fix them etc).

  #2: This device is used by forestry workers (high-tree climbers and cutters). It is hammered into the trunk or branch of a tree and is used to attach roping and climbing gear (in combination with pegging) and is used for hand-holds and climbing (on the wide trunk of a large tree). It is mainly used in large branched and trunked trees that are often too wide to tie a rope to (i.e., “rope-off too”, or “Branch-off too”.).

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• Seth Christenfeld
  November 23rd, 2006 at 5:35 pm

  They both look like they could be trivets (on theme, considering that it’s Thanksgiving).

• John Carswell
  November 23rd, 2006 at 6:19 pm

  Number 1 is a extension cord, power cable storage device - wind the cord around each of the two ‘wings’ of the device and ‘lock’ the cable in place by sliding the plug and the socket ends into the narroe gap between the wings! Four rubber tips protect the device from damaging floors or injuring user.

• Darrell Lane
  November 23rd, 2006 at 7:30 pm

  They both look like some type of hand guard on a sword. #1 seems like it was from a midevil sword and #2 looks like possibly a guard for a fighting stick.

• Ian
  November 23rd, 2006 at 7:34 pm

  I think the power cable theory is a good one, although the arms would be there to stop the cable coming off entirely. If you attempted to wrap it around just the arms it would slip down to the middle bit. The slot would be for the plug that you unwrap too rather than the one at the end that you’d wrap/unwrap.

  It could also be some sort of heavy duty nail remover, the slot being slipped under the head of the nail with the front two handles being grasped and the back two acting as the fulcrum.

  The top spikes on the second item seem to be too short for impaling anything. It’s also a very different construction from the sword catchers linked. Is the surface of the top right spike worn?

  No guess from me as to that though, I don’t have anything likely enough to try and find supporting evidence for.

• withvous
  November 23rd, 2006 at 8:13 pm

  I love guessing games!!!

  Object one appears to be a door stop - the kind that you place inside of the hinge (hinge key)

  Object two looks very much like a sash buckle - a framwork to make a four pointed star/compass knot for your robe (or dare I say for your secret ninja outfit, the one that only comes out of the closet when evil comes out of its dark corners)

• Jake
  November 23rd, 2006 at 8:29 pm

  Object #1 is a football

  Object #2 is a baseball

  Have I mentioned I’m blind?

• JG
  November 23rd, 2006 at 11:13 pm

  you put hot dishes on top of them at the table to protect the surface from the heat.

• Dave
  November 24th, 2006 at 1:12 am

  Rats; no clues in the file names. Just what-is-this-1.jpg and what-is-this-2.jpg. (I can’t be the only one that checked, can I?)

  I wish I had a clue as to what either of those gadgets are — sure would like to have one of those T-shirts! — but haven’t a clue. I was thinking that #1 might be some kind of tool to straddle the top of a chimney or narrow well, and a chain link would slip through the slot in the middle to keep it and whatever is at the end from dropping down inside. Wild guess there.

• DJ
  November 24th, 2006 at 11:09 am

  Rats; no clues in the file names. Just what-is-this-1.jpg and what-is-this-2.jpg. (I can’t be the only one that checked, can I?)

  Yeah, I also checked for DCIM keywords and EXIF thumbnails. =)

  You have to be careful of such things….

  Ever hear what happened to Cat Scwartz on TechTV? From her Wikipedia article,

  In June 2003 Schwartz became the subject of a stir in the Internet community when it was discovered that at least two cropped photographs of herself she had posted on her personal blog contained hidden Exif thumbnail images clearly showing her bared breasts, because the program she used to edit them did not create replacement thumbnails.

• thoper
  November 24th, 2006 at 12:55 pm

  the second one is a tool used to grab two ropes, while the first one is a clothing (or hair) accesory (you use it to put some clothing).

• jgfish
  November 24th, 2006 at 7:41 pm

  i think number one is a door stop

• Ron
  November 24th, 2006 at 10:02 pm

  I think the first one is used to hold one end of a couple of strands of rope or wire and then twist to make a twisted rope or barbed wire.

• Hugh G
  November 26th, 2006 at 9:40 pm

  The first is a nail/bolt remover (which is obvious because the parts extending from the centre have wooden parts to act as leverage/handles and the centre is where the head of the bold or nail fits,
  and the second is clearly a 1980’s belt buckle. just fit some purple or yellow silk through, or a large piece of white leather, and fold it through and voila, you will look just like Cyndi Lauper.

• Amanda
  November 27th, 2006 at 10:29 am

  They’re both bootjacks. Used to take boots off.

• Alex
  November 27th, 2006 at 8:09 pm

  Okay! Judging by the number of comments, this collaboration w/ What is It? is a big success!

  Dave & DJ, I thought someone might check that, so I did scrub the pic. Maybe next time I’ll leave a clue here and there (or even the wrong clue, just to make it more interesting). Or maybe not.

  Re: Object 1. It’s a wire twister (patent #338,659). You can look it up here. The closest answer is Ron’s (#25), so he’ll get a Neatorama T-shirt.

  Re: Object 2. Deerhorn knives seem to be the most likely answer, but there are a couple of things that’s not right: the object is tubular, not flat like a real deerhorn knife. And the object is quite heavy, so it’s unlikely that it would that useful as a real weapon.

  Nevertheless, Rob and I think that it’s close enough. So, congrats to Mongo (#8). Unfortunately for Sylvain (#3), it’s not called Chinese crankiness weapon and plus the rules did say “don’t post urls.”

  Also, contrats to Link Right 2, just a handful of blogs that link to this post (and got a free t-shirt b/c of it!).

• Anton
  November 30th, 2006 at 2:49 pm

  Alex,

  I’m Anton from lr2, please send me your email and I’ll get you an address for the shirt

  Thanks!
  Anton

  ps Yay, I won something

• pins
  December 24th, 2006 at 12:50 pm

  is it a “coaster”?
  a tray for holding a decanter to be put on a dining table, not to demage the table by the heat?

• Fernando
  May 23rd, 2007 at 11:20 pm

  Isso é um cabide pra roupas.

• sb
  July 24th, 2007 at 12:43 am

  The second item is a rope splicer - used for splicing knots on large hemp rope.

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