What Is It? Game 64 - Neatorama

Today's collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this strange device: what is it for?

Place your guess in the comment section - no prize this week, you're playing for bragging rights and fun only. For more clues, check out What is it? blog. Good luck!

Update 5/30/08 - the answer is: An automatic bookmark, it's clipped onto the back cover of a book with the pin placed between the pages to mark your place, patent number D163572.

Congratulations to Jim A. who got it right first!

It's that kind of thing attached to the doors in order to close them automaticly? It does have a name for sure but my english doesn't go so far :)

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For holding open a book? Possibly a Bible at a lecturn.

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I think it's a tool to punch holes in a belt

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A pastry punch?

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Its a reedling snafflecruck. It was used by grimple laggers to prepare waxwork books for stressing. They were traditionally made from brass to dissapate static electricity, which actually was not a factor.

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what is that? looks like a money clip/ boat throttle.

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an ashtray from an old train?

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It's an embosser. You put a letter in between the clamps, work the lever to exert pressure, and they press a raised pattern into the paper.

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It clips onto the cover of a book and holds the open page down so the page can be read hands-free.

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I don't know what it is, but it looks like an instrument of torture.

But maybe Randall is right.

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to tighten a washer?

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A locking device, like on a safe?

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arc scribe perhaps?

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That there is a hinge for a glass door, such as muffin cases and whatnot. The long metal pert keeps the door from swinging too wide and shattering.

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It's a page holder for books. The "clip" part is attached to the book's cover (usually the back) and the arm is used to mark pages.

I found one @ a Goodwill years ago and bought the book it was attached to just for the bookmark! Luckily, I like Umberto Eco.

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It looks like a thingie to put the hole in the door so that you can then install a lock (the kind that you put a key into).

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it is a book MARK I have one and it's wonderful

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Is is a lock for a glass cabinet. It prevents one glass to slide as it is hooked to the other glass edge.

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If you want to make a tight knot and there is nobody to lend a finger, you clip this thing on your watch and use it as an extra finger to hold the knot down!

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Its a belt knuckle, which is attached with belt strap and voila you have complete belt!! =D

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It's a toilet for midgets with a remote closing handle (midget poo stinks like hell)

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I vote for Reedling Snafflecruck, whatever it does.

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I'm gonna guess bobbin winder - empty bobbin goes in, thread goes through the notch and is wound round using the handle...

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I believe it is used to hold down papers on a clipboard

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