What is it? Game 69

Yay! It's time for our weekly game of whatchamacallit in collaboration with the What is it? blog.

Can you guess what the strange object above is? First correct answer gets a free T-shirt from the Neatorama online shop. If no one gets it right, then the funniest answer will get it instead. Contest rules are simple: place your guess in the comment section, one guess per comment please (but you can guess as many times as you'd like). Post no URL - let others play.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

Update 7/5/08 - the answer is:
Bog shoes for a horse, for use in peat bogs or other similar terrain


Congratulations to Baz who got it right first!

If this actually is for a horse to wear, then I doubt it's for snow, the large surface area could be for crossing frozen lakes or something, but with all those holes (presumably for either weight reduction or to put studs through) I doubt it would fair very well in deep snow.
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This is a percule application device. It was an early form of orthodontia, applied to sufferes of sigmatism. The practice was abandoned when after five years of widespread use, it produced no successful results. This may be the only surviving examples as all of the 'patients' upon removal of the device, immediately destroyed them with hammers.
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It's a temporary horseshoe for those times when the real horseshoe is in the shop for shoe repairs. It clamps onto the hoof and then the horse is ready to go! The quick-release is installed in the back for easy removal. Comes in 3 different sizes and colors. Also available in "cross-trainers", "steel-toe" for heavy farm work and "runners" for a day at the races.
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It looks like a torture device in which ones nose is slowly squashed and adjusted, with the little 'shelf' part on the right hand side on the bottom, collecting the cartilage bits that fall off.

However...maybe I only see this because I've been watching shows on torture devices on the History Channel all day long...
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