What is It? Game 18

By Alex in What Is It on Apr 5, 2007 at 3:59 am

This week’s collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this strange metal object – for dimensions and another photo from a different angle, check out: What is It? Blog.

Guess what this strange object is and win a Free Neatorama T-Shirt! Place your guess in the comment section, but please, post no URL – let others play. The answer will be revealed tomorrow!

Update 4/6/07: The answer is … nutcracker!

Nutcracker, placed on the knee when seated, a nut is set in the hole and then struck with a hammer. In the winter, these were warmed by the fire before using.

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Aramax
Apr 5th, 2007 at 4:23 am
The back of the mask of “The Man in the Iron Mask”?
Paul
Apr 5th, 2007 at 5:58 am
Is it an oil lamp of some kind?
Chauss513
Apr 5th, 2007 at 6:14 am
A fixture for setting rivets, or hobnails.
yayo
Apr 5th, 2007 at 6:17 am
I think it’s a cast mold (half of it).
lorem
Apr 5th, 2007 at 6:25 am
It’s Apple’s optical mouse found in 5000 years!!!
jonno
Apr 5th, 2007 at 7:56 am
hmmm could it be a banana holder or perhaps a banana shield?
calvin
Apr 5th, 2007 at 8:08 am
an iron?
T B
Apr 5th, 2007 at 8:23 am
It’s a die for metal working.
Eddie
Apr 5th, 2007 at 8:25 am
I think it’s one of those things that old time photographers would put on a stick and put flash powder into the scoop part.
P.D.
Apr 5th, 2007 at 8:37 am
An iron was my first guess
mt
Apr 5th, 2007 at 8:42 am
candle holder
C.C.
Apr 5th, 2007 at 8:43 am
It’s a Maritial device.
Kev
Apr 5th, 2007 at 9:20 am
looks like something you put on your knee when sitting while doing some kind of metal work.
DrJones
Apr 5th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Looks like some sort of grometing tool.
Twitchings
Apr 5th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Welding mask for a cyclopse

banjo on your knee stand
AD
Apr 5th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Stand for a flag?
Aramax
Apr 5th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Forging creuset to pour molten metal?
Justin
Apr 5th, 2007 at 10:02 am
The most uncomfortable bike seat ever!
MGH
Apr 5th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Part of a fire hydrant?
Brent
Apr 5th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
It looks like a paper weight.
Randall
Apr 5th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
It’s a bole shoe for a Moraxion rohglehornica, a combination woodwind precussion instrument used by Morax shepherds to call in their flocks. In the 1800′s the Morax finally donesticated dogs and stopped using the quarter ton pig iron istruments and they were abondoned to rust. However some survied when building were built around them and they found a second live as kilns for love fetish dolls used in Morax courtships. Modern use has seen them played once more, but due to their association they are used as background music in risque Morax movies, as their sound resembles the bleating of sheep.
CN
Apr 5th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
It’s an attachment (to a column, for instance) to secure a horizontal rod (like a closet rod)
Alex
Apr 5th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Ooooh, this is a good one. So far, twenty two guesses and no one got it right yet!
Cheryl
Apr 5th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I think it’s a shoulder shield. You’d need two of them. The recessed knob areas would support pieces of a crossbeam. Kind of like a slightly more tech-savvy version of the stick across the shoulders with water buckets hanging down either side. This doo-hickey would help stabilize the load and distribute the pressure.
john claud van damn
Apr 5th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
umm cheryl, i dont think anyone knows what stars over underlines mean pal..
chad
Apr 5th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
A spartan nut cup!?!?!?!?!?
Gabriella O'Rourke
Apr 5th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Its an old fashioned hot water bottle. There would have been a stopper in the top and it would be filled with steaming hot water (maybe?).
nathan
Apr 5th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
a cannon attachment, perhaps?
otis
Apr 6th, 2007 at 12:25 am
A new DRM tool for the RIAA to attach to compact discs?
or
The world’s first attempt at a pencil sharpener?
or
A tiny volcano. Part of a “toys for insects” movement?

Personally I’d use it as a paperweight. You have my curiosity soaring you know.
Lasse
Apr 6th, 2007 at 2:10 am
Probably a kind of chastity belt?
beajerry
Apr 6th, 2007 at 2:57 am
A form for making shoes.
chris
Apr 6th, 2007 at 4:42 am
Its a blow mold for making bottles
jonno
Apr 6th, 2007 at 4:51 am
is it an iron nipple?
dudeface
Apr 6th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
A welding mask for a giant cyclops?
Alex
Apr 6th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
The answer is … nutcracker! No one got it, although Kev #13 was close in that he identified it was put on a knee.
bill
Apr 8th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
wait a minute.where is your evidece, your expert museum person . where is the photo of another. Sorry ,it’s a nutcracker is not enough. what kind of nut? acorn? brazil ,pecan how about a pistachio or a delious filbert i think maybe not
TubbyCat
Apr 9th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Looks like Bill Clinton to me.

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