What is It? Game 22. - Neatorama

Today's collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this object: what is it for? (for a close up picture, check out What is It?)

Place your guess in the comment section - please don't post any URL, let others play. You're playing for bragging rights - no t-shirt this week.

[Update 5/25/07: Sorry for the late answer, here it is:

Bill poster's hammer or advertising hammer, the clip near the head holds a tack and the lower clip holds an advertising card, the long handle allows the card to be posted high above normal reach, so it can't be stolen.

Congratulations to Chauss513 who got it right!]

an ancient croquet mallet?

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It's a polo mallet.

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an early golf putter.

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Polo mallet.

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not a polo mallet I don't think as they are the same on both faces, the head doesn't have a point.

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Looks like it may be for putting up Posters or advertisements,

The clip on the side is used to hold the nail/tack to the head. Also looks like the handle is two parts and screws together.

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The head seems too small for a polo mallet. My guess would be a wheel-tapper's hammer (tap the wheels of a train - if it makes a clear sound, it's good, a dull thunk means it's cracked). However, the handle seems a little long for that.

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It is a reflex hammer thingy for Giraffes or large animals.

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This is the 'kurtzen' teegle hammer. Its introduction at the 1844 Wastenhal conference of Remblemanner caused a minor scandal and gave rise to the slogan 'Komm und Drang!' With the exception of Argentina, which had outlawed Resten-kepling as a sport or vocation in the previous year, its use was universally adopted and the 'Lang' teegle hammer was held up as an object of derision.

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Its a Banana Picker

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its a semi-automatic machine pie

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It's the stickman's stick for a craps game and is used to pull the dice off the table.

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It's 2 monkeys

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It knocks icicles from buildings

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Gandalfs cane.

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It is for placing posters up high. A nail is loaded in the top clip and the bottom edge is held in the lower clip. One strike set the poster.

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it's a bird killer. no need to wait for them to come down to the ground. Whack 'em while they're still up in the trees!

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It's a marble polo hammer. Long live marble polo!

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It's a bicycle polo mallet.

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Banana picker.

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I think Chauss5130 is on the money!

you pop the tack in the side brace give it a wee tap to secure it then spin the head round and thump the bugger home.

well done Chauss513 even if you prove to be totaly wrong.

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It's a stick used to jab elephants in the hind quarters by a rider/trainer. Sort of like a whip would be used on a horse.

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It's a croupier's rake.

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WATCH MAKER OR CLOCK REPAIR HAMMER

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Yes, it is an early form of a polo mallet.

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antique billiards bridge

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Polo polo polo polo polo!!

Awww...no t-shirt? :(

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Congrats to Chauss513, who got it right! It's a bill poster's hammer.

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