What is It? Game 45

Posted by Alex in What Is It on November 15, 2007 at 4:13 am


This week’s collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange item: can you guess its function?

Place your guess in the comment section. Please post no URL (let others play! ) No prize this week, you’re playing for fun and bragging rights.

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

Update 11/17/07 – the answer is:

This would have been found in a store, where it was used to hold and display carriage driver’s whips. A knot was tied in the small end, which was then inserted into one of the slots.

Congratulations to Bill R. #8 who go it right!


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30 comments to "What is It? Game 45"

  1. steve_disaster
    November 15th, 2007 at 4:15 am

    I think it is a chandelier made specifically to hold candles.

  2. Joanne
    November 15th, 2007 at 5:15 am

    Steves probably right so I'll say...A funfair ride for mice?

  3. bobbywiseguy
    November 15th, 2007 at 5:35 am

    looks like an evil critter trapper thingy left out in the woods by fur trapper, what do i win again??

  4. celticmick_7
    November 15th, 2007 at 6:17 am

    A kipper hanger?

  5. Mark
    November 15th, 2007 at 7:09 am

    A device for making candles, specifically candles made by dipping the string into molten wax.

  6. algonkin
    November 15th, 2007 at 8:26 am

    A hanger for pots and pans

  7. Bex
    November 15th, 2007 at 8:36 am

    A hanger for wine glasses (they slot into the gaps between the "petals").

  8. Bill R.
    November 15th, 2007 at 8:57 am

    An old general store item. A cast iron rack for displaying buggy whips for sale.

  9. Miss Cellania
    November 15th, 2007 at 9:22 am

    I don't know what it is, but it sorta reminds me of an instrument of torture.

  10. Randall
    November 15th, 2007 at 9:33 am

    Its a rack for nickle-plating counterfiet deutschmarks from WW2. Unknown to most is the US's efforts to disrupt the third reichs economy by counterfeiting the nazi state 1 dm coins. The plot failed when it was discovered that the ersaltz US dms were made from higher quality materials than the german, and gave the impression to the average german that the economy was improving.

  11. Craig Clayton
    November 15th, 2007 at 9:33 am

    I believe it is a hanging rack for sausages.

  12. DrJones
    November 15th, 2007 at 9:42 am

    It's used to make candles, not hold them. The wicks are strung so they hang down, then the rig is lowered and raised into and out of hot wax until the candle is done.

  13. GoingLikeSixty
    November 15th, 2007 at 9:49 am

    Dominatrix Crown?

    I think it's decorative. In the lower right it looks like it could be opened to go around something and then closed with the small chains supporting it.

    So I'm going with an Elizabethan Collar for a Pit Bull.

    No. don't need the little chains for that.

    What the HELL is that?

  14. Florent
    November 15th, 2007 at 9:59 am

    It looks like one of those plastic things where clothespins are attached all around, and which can hold as many pieces of clothing (mostly socks) as there's clothespins. But it seems to be made of metal, and the clothespins are missing.

  15. Joe H
    November 15th, 2007 at 10:05 am

    It's a hanging coat rack.

  16. nerfherder
    November 15th, 2007 at 10:08 am

    I think it holds items to be spray-painted or coated and then dried. the circular design would reduce over-spray mess.

  17. Barbara
    November 15th, 2007 at 10:57 am

    Snow tire

  18. middy
    November 15th, 2007 at 11:08 am

    Yeah, it's for dipping candles. Nod nod.

  19. lewis
    November 15th, 2007 at 11:09 am

    its some kind of garden ornament for hanging plants. it dangles by the ring and chains

  20. Jasmine
    November 15th, 2007 at 11:36 am

    Is it a chandelier?

  21. Advice Network
    November 15th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

    It's a candelabra. (I think)

  22. Drew
    November 15th, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    Hah, Randall, my hat is off to you for your amazing guesses.

    Seriously though i'm going to say a holder for candle wicks.

  23. soops
    November 15th, 2007 at 12:05 pm

    What Jasmine said.

  24. nate
    November 15th, 2007 at 12:24 pm

    it's a cock ring.

    lol, no.. it looks like it could be used to suspend a wreath for some b/s like advent or something. or thats just what it reminds me of since i unfortunately went to catholic school for a few years.

  25. Marina
    November 15th, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    Some sort of lighting fixture

  26. Guyon
    November 15th, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    A banana of course.

  27. Tom
    November 15th, 2007 at 5:38 pm

    It's obviously a manual clock, with manually moved hour, minute, and second hands.

  28. Thomas More
    November 15th, 2007 at 9:15 pm

    It's to display buggy whips. I've got one.

  29. b
    November 15th, 2007 at 10:02 pm

    sock dryer.

  30. Chris
    November 15th, 2007 at 10:21 pm

    Neatorama is proudly preesenting the much admired Milwaukee Cast Iron Freesbee (TM), with chain and ring adapted to the Milwaukee Cast Iron Freesbee Holder (TM). This particular model belonged to the famous Bjornmahr Hupdruck, seven times worldchampion.


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