What is It? Game 28.

Posted by Alex in What Is It on July 5, 2007 at 3:25 am


Today’s collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this strange contraption – first one to guess what it is wins a free Neatorama T-Shirt!

Place your guess in the comment section – one guess per comment, you can guess as many times as you’d like. Post no URL, please, let others play. For more clues, check out What is It? Blog.

Update 7/6/07: The answer is the Protector Palm Pistol, 7 shot , .32 caliber gun made by the Chicago Fire Arms Co. Lox Lox guessed it right, but didn’t read the contest rule closely and posted an URL, so congratulations to b0rsuk who got the free Neatorama t-shirt!


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52 comments to "What is It? Game 28."

  1. Sylvain Romiguier
    July 5th, 2007 at 3:48 am

    It's a camera.

  2. Lox Lox
    July 5th, 2007 at 3:57 am

    It is a pocket gun

  3. Lox Lox
    July 5th, 2007 at 4:04 am

    To complete what I said, check here :
    [URL deleted - what part of post no URL is ambiguous?]

    You can see it on this website (sorry it is in French).It is called "protector"

  4. Alexander Fear
    July 5th, 2007 at 4:13 am

    Looks like an old-fashioned belt-punch to me. For punching holes in a leather belt.

  5. Kevin
    July 5th, 2007 at 4:16 am

    I agree that its a punch of some sort, most likely leather.

  6. Oomi
    July 5th, 2007 at 4:25 am

    puncher made in chicago, obviously

  7. b0rsuk
    July 5th, 2007 at 4:30 am

    It looks like a pocket pistol, the kind used by assassins.

  8. pol x
    July 5th, 2007 at 4:41 am

    it's a palm gun

  9. John
    July 5th, 2007 at 4:55 am

    It is a squeeze operated pistol.

  10. shihui
    July 5th, 2007 at 5:34 am

    perhaps a secret gun that's hidden in a compartment of a matchbox?

  11. Miss Cellania
    July 5th, 2007 at 5:36 am

    It's an instrument of torture!

  12. CitrusC
    July 5th, 2007 at 6:01 am

    That would be the world's first HDD! ;)

  13. lennyb
    July 5th, 2007 at 6:05 am

    yeah it looks like a spy camera to me.

  14. MonochromeAngel
    July 5th, 2007 at 6:24 am

    It looks a bit like a lighter to me. The rough part in the middle looks like it would strike a spark from a flint.

  15. sandburr
    July 5th, 2007 at 6:40 am

    It is a palm gun.

  16. Peter Vas
    July 5th, 2007 at 6:48 am

    It's a pocket gun

  17. Alex F
    July 5th, 2007 at 6:52 am

    It's a pocket gun hidden inside a box (perhaps from cigarettes or a deck of cards) so it can be used stealthily.

  18. George
    July 5th, 2007 at 6:58 am

    It is a palm pistol.

  19. simon
    July 5th, 2007 at 6:58 am

    Chalk line dispenser for bricklaying

  20. Mark Crouthers
    July 5th, 2007 at 7:13 am

    Chicago Palm Pistol

  21. Aaron Lynch
    July 5th, 2007 at 7:15 am

    It is a pistol known as a Knuckle Duster. Popular among Gamblers. Very easy to conceal.

  22. jima-san!
    July 5th, 2007 at 7:36 am

    It looks like the internal structure of an old-fashioned doorknob.

  23. randal bodeau
    July 5th, 2007 at 7:51 am

    A real "hand gun".

  24. Chip Overclock
    July 5th, 2007 at 8:25 am

    Wow, finally a What Is It that I actually know about (although I'm not the first with the correct answer). It's a pocket pistol. It's pictured in one of my firearms history books around here somewhere.

  25. Sergio Eidi
    July 5th, 2007 at 8:37 am

    It´s a barbecue smoke blower.

  26. alex place
    July 5th, 2007 at 8:49 am

    it is a mini hand gun. that can be easily concealed

  27. Zbaker
    July 5th, 2007 at 8:53 am

    it's a "Lemon Squeezer" pistol, made famous because it was used to assassinate President McKinley.

  28. Craig J
    July 5th, 2007 at 9:02 am

    Its a gun

  29. Horacio Garay
    July 5th, 2007 at 9:24 am

    It looks like a emery grinder or dremel tool :D

  30. Greg
    July 5th, 2007 at 9:31 am

    Others beat me to it, but it is a gun.

  31. trasken
    July 5th, 2007 at 9:38 am

    It's small concealable gun that can be fit in a palm. I have heard it called a "lemon squeezer". It's a hammerless .32 caliber squeeze gun.
    It is similar to, if not the gun, that Leon Czolgosz used to assassinate William McKinley in 1901.

  32. Philip
    July 5th, 2007 at 9:51 am

    I think this type of pistol was used in the assasination of president Garfield or McKinley, I'm not sure which one.

  33. Wayne
    July 5th, 2007 at 10:34 am

    Beat me to it also, it is a gun.

  34. jerrt
    July 5th, 2007 at 10:53 am

    it is a small gun used in espionage or assassinations called a lemon squeezer.

  35. Chris
    July 5th, 2007 at 10:55 am

    answer to all of these games: a sex toy

  36. Erik
    July 5th, 2007 at 11:00 am

    It is a "Lemon Squeezer" palm pistol, the same type suspected to be used to assassinate Pres. William McKinley.

  37. Alex
    July 5th, 2007 at 11:48 am

    Post no URL, please. You'll forfeit the prize if you do.

  38. Chad
    July 5th, 2007 at 12:06 pm

    It is a 32 caliber pistol. Manufactured by the Chicago Fire Arms Co. The model name is "Protector", patented in 1883.

  39. NeonCat
    July 5th, 2007 at 12:07 pm

    I believe it is known as a Chicago Protector palm pistol.

    According to another website, Leon Czolgosz used a .32 Iver Johnson hammerless revolver to shoot and kill McKinley, not a pistol such as this.

  40. Rosi
    July 5th, 2007 at 12:15 pm

    It's an authentic Victorian compactable pizza cutterwheel. Used in olden Italy during the early 1800s.

  41. Jaime
    July 5th, 2007 at 1:02 pm

    Gun

  42. John Nichols
    July 5th, 2007 at 1:46 pm

    It is a "turret pistol." It holds seven cartridges. This gun is cocked by squeezing in the lever sticking out on the right, and is fired by pressing a small trigger lever just under the barrel. What appears to be an abrasive wheel in the center is a knurled inset that the user rests their thumb against to steady the gun when cocking and firing.

    You would place the gun in the palm of the right hand, with the curved lever against the heel of the hand. Then wrap your fingers around it with the barrel protruding between the index and middle finger.

  43. amiam
    July 5th, 2007 at 4:59 pm

    This style of gun is commonly known as a turret revolver.

  44. T. Hardy
    July 5th, 2007 at 5:17 pm

    It's a safe combination chamber.

  45. Daniel Nisenson
    July 5th, 2007 at 10:53 pm

    It is the French Turbiaux Palm Squeezer Pistol patented by Jaques E. Turbiaux in the year 1882.

  46. Profesor Marcus
    July 6th, 2007 at 7:19 am

    It´s a pocket gun

  47. cubby96
    July 6th, 2007 at 7:20 am

    It's a torture device for people who don't know how to read the contest rules. Look out, it's coming right for us!

  48. Mitch
    July 6th, 2007 at 9:31 am

    Its a secret gun hidden in a matchbox

  49. Nathan Miller
    July 6th, 2007 at 10:00 am

    I was gonna guess a stove, but everyone seems to be certain that it's a gun.

    I figured that the round part was the burner, and the tube on the left goes out to a butane tank.

  50. Randall
    July 6th, 2007 at 10:39 am

    This is a russian made hand cruppler. A Weevolint inspector uses this small device to make a nonsymetrical hole from which to draw a sample for semi-destructive testing. The device had to be small so that it could be concealed from the Weevolint, else drastic violence may ensue. Weevolints were finally made extinct during the Bavarian Ice riots of 1932.

  51. Jay
    July 6th, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    It's a automatic striker for matches, no wait it's a Finger filer, no it's a poor man's dremel

  52. tracy
    September 12th, 2007 at 8:49 pm

    It,s easy, it,s a minneapolis protecter (1883)
    It was made in 3 cal.,s 32 center fire/32 rim fire and a very uniqe 22 bb cap rim fire.
    I would love to owne one but they cost to much for me!


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