What is it? Game 44

By Alex in What Is It on Nov 8, 2007 at 4:41 am

This week’s collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange contraption: can you guess what it is for?

Place your guess in the comment section – one guess per comment, please! You can guess as many times as you’d like. Please post no URL, so others can play. No prize this week – you’re playing for fun and bragging rights only.

For more clues, check out What is it? Blog.

Update 11/9/07 – the answer is:

“The X Rays Egg Tester”, manufactured by The Reeves-Rigling Egg Tester Co., Hamilton, Ohio, Patent number 940,361. Also known as an egg candler, these were used for detecting embryonic development or for separating shell eggs.

Congratulations to Bill #14 who got it right!


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  1. Duncs
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 4:55 am

    A tanks periscope

  2. gidget
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 5:28 am

    The sink from the girls’ bathroom on the second floor of Hogwart’s. You know, the one with the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets.

  3. Gregory
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 5:58 am

    A lamp from a lighthouse

  4. Dan
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 6:58 am

    A lantern that attaches to a chimney flue, used on a wood burning stove. Heat and light.

  5. ChrisW
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 7:06 am

    A kerosene lantern with three colors for signaling.

  6. Craig Clayton
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 7:09 am

    I believe it is a coal oil lamp that uses different coloured glass lens to signal changes of statis like railway or tunnels

  7. kate
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 7:25 am

    a gas powered streetlamp

  8. Trevor Martin
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 8:10 am

    Greenhouse heater

  9. andya
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 9:35 am

    its a mixer for tinting paint.

  10. Randall
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 9:39 am

    It is a soviet army biscuit buttering machine. Called a “Kampechnya’ Nudfatna Vechnitatak” (Stlins Whore) by the troops it has been used to make a rough tasting vodka from wood chips or delouse sleeping clothes, depending on the region. No one has ever figured out how to butter biscuits with it. Although it is offically listed as a biscuit buttering machine, no one in the soviet army is exactly sure why.

    The CIA spent over 17 million dollars researching its deployment.

  11. Chauss513
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 9:45 am

    A Triunial Magic Lantern.

  12. Bill
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 9:55 am

    An Egg Candler

  13. Ace
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 10:00 am

    Lights and nozzles for a fountain centrepiece

  14. Ross Hamre
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 10:06 am

    Gas stagelight

  15. uur
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 10:13 am

    its a heating device..

  16. Edward
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 10:19 am

    one of the filters used in oder to pump up water from like a lake that is attached at the end of the hose to kewep stuff from being sucked into the water, for like firefighter helicopters used to drop water on fires.

  17. Bruce R
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 10:52 am

    Looks to me like some sort of outdoor coffee warmer – propane/gas powered.

  18. fluff
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 11:03 am

    It’s a signaling lamp working with oil or petrol. there are 3 different lights which you can operate independently.

  19. laura
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 11:08 am

    a military vanity

  20. david hare
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 11:17 am

    a gas traffic light

  21. eggtrailer
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 11:43 am

    Heater for an antiquated hot air balloon?

  22. Thomas
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 11:53 am

    It is a kerosene powered railway signal. It has different reflectors to signal whether a train is coming or going, and a couple of knobs at the bottom to control how bright the flame is. Judging by the two screw mounts on the top, I’d say it was meant to hang on a wall, probably at the station itself.

  23. Thespian24601
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    No clue, but dear God do I hope Randall is right lol.
    That’s so intricate, I hope it’s bs, but if it’s not, hahahahaha.

  24. John
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 12:27 pm

    olde timey theatrical limelight. calcium carbonate sticks go in the holes. when heated by gas flame, they emit light.

  25. Holli
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 1:31 pm

    I’ll have to say it does look like the sinks from the bathroom in Hogwarts, but I think it really is a sink. Three sinks and mirrors for a public place, such as maybe a locker room.

  26. Eric Drummond Smith
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

    I’ve gotta’ agree with Gregory – - – it looks like a lighthouse lantern. . .

  27. Miss Cellania
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 2:27 pm

    That’s definitely an instrument of torture.

  28. Chris
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 2:50 pm

    it’s a fun fair game, where you have to pee on the propane flames and extinguish them as fast as possible.
    The winner has a free meal at the local diner with Emilda the Ouzbek bearded woman.

  29. Bob Liesmith
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    It’s a wall mounted hurricane lamp

  30. middy
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 3:57 pm

    It’s a kerosene spotlight.

  31. c-dub
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 7:33 pm

    Randall is a genius of some sort (I don’t know what sort, exactly, but still). He’s the best part of this blog.

  32. Kanone
    Nov 9th, 2007 at 2:30 am

    That is an air filter for armored vehicle.

  33. puchasgracias
    Nov 9th, 2007 at 11:49 am

    It’s for checking whether chicken eggs contain chicks, but I think someone beat me to it.

  34. Alex
    Nov 9th, 2007 at 5:35 pm

    Great guesses, guys! The answer is Egg Candler (guessed right by Bill #14).

    I agree with c-dub #35. Randall is definitely a genius and the best part of this blog. I wouldn’t dare go head to head with him in a game of Balderdash.


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