What is It? Game 27.

This week’s collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this strange object: can you guess what it is? More clues at What is It? Blog.

Place your guess in the comment section - and please, post no URL; let others play. No T-shirt this week, you’re playing for bragging rights only.

Update 6/29/07: It’s a device for holding shirt sleeves: Patent number 640,080. No one got it right, but there were many creative guesses!

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June 28, 2007 at 3:14 am by Alex
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22 comments to "What is It? Game 27."

shihui
June 28th, 2007 at 4:59 am
doorknob?
mrmonkeysocks
June 28th, 2007 at 5:39 am
A belt/strap tightener
Guessbear
June 28th, 2007 at 6:09 am
Looks like it belongs in a brewery.
Mark
June 28th, 2007 at 6:15 am
it looks like a winder for a watch.
Craig Clayton
June 28th, 2007 at 6:26 am
It is a winder for a string or a line ,it has the opening clasp so that it can be placed over a continous line.
Miss Cellania
June 28th, 2007 at 6:28 am
I believe that would be an instrument of torture.
cubby96
June 28th, 2007 at 7:22 am
it could be a rollback device for an odometer on a car
the black adder
June 28th, 2007 at 7:34 am
medical torniquet tightener?
matt
June 28th, 2007 at 7:43 am
can opener.
Ben Worobec
June 28th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Looks like something that would be used to remove Guinea Worms (skin parasite.) The head of the worm would be hooked on the spindle and the knob would be given a couple of cranks every day to slowly remove the parasite over time.
duende
June 28th, 2007 at 7:59 am
a bewilderer - a medieval device built to bewilder common folk many years after its creation.
patbrown47
June 28th, 2007 at 8:26 am
I think its a microkeratome - a device used to remove a flap of tissue, like in LASIK surgery.
NeonCat
June 28th, 2007 at 8:27 am
It looks like a spring winder for a mechanical watch.
robertk
June 28th, 2007 at 8:37 am
A device used as part of a control flow valve.
Casper
June 28th, 2007 at 9:22 am
A jar opener. Tighten it over a lid and use the knob to turn the lid open.
mousy anon
June 28th, 2007 at 10:09 am
It’s definetly a carrier for ice blocks
Robgonzo
June 28th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Handcuffs
D...
June 28th, 2007 at 10:38 am
an intestine puller…
Randall
June 28th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Its a Scovuncial Clasp, usually just called a ‘clasper.’ Traditional Irish clog dancers frequently suffer from embarassment when their strenuous dances cause the breast bands of their authentic 13th century styled under garments to loosen and drap from their blouse fronts in an unseemly fashion. This small clasp helps them maintain their dignity, even while performing the “hunting eels in a septic bog’ routine.
Aaron
June 28th, 2007 at 11:53 am
DUHHH!!! they’re baby handcuffs. You only need half because the hands are so small… And the little spikes? Because big spikes are just wrong.
Alex
June 28th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Oooh, this is a good what-is-it! 20 guesses and not even one close one!
hermit_man
June 28th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
It’s a chastity belt buckle

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