Comments on: What is it? Game 70

By: Jarod D.

Jarod D. — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:37:16 +0000

Its a very rare trap which I have been looking for my collection. If its yours and you want to sell it send me an e-mail.

By: MARK JONES

MARK JONES — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:26:47 +0000

IS IS A GIBBS LIVE MUSKRAT TRAP!!THE TOP PART WAS PUSHED OVER AND IT LOCKED…THEN YOU MASH IT DOWN FLAT…THE MUSKRAT WOULD SWIM UP ON IT..THE SLINKY PART WOULD CLOSE OVER HIM THEN IT WOULD RAISE ITSELF OUT OF THE WATER ABOUT 3 INCHES SO THE MUSKRAT WOULD NOT DROWN….USED FOR RELOCATING MUSKRATS…QUITE RARE AND VALUABLE!!!MARK

By: Moon

Moon — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:24:29 +0000

Randalll, no,it isn’t.

By: fruity ana

fruity ana — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:40:02 +0000

It’s a fold-out basket that attaches to a bike???

By: Raul Bermudez

Raul Bermudez — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:10:26 +0000

I have read the previous comments, so I now know that it is not the case, but my first impression was that it was something uses to de-sperm armadillos.

By: Randalll

Randalll — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:54:32 +0000

Its a Schlemer-Vorstein submersable torpedo degausser. Or in the original nomenclature: Einem SchlemerVorsteingUntenseeTorpedischungaussermachensteinbessenessenvor1 1/17. This device was carried on WW1 U boats to prevent torpedos from becomming magnetically charged, thus disrupting their primitive clockwork guidance systems, causing them to ‘fly’ from water and explode harmlessly in the stratosphere. Expensive to manufacture, difficult to maintain, and of no practical use, the lack of strategic materials and manpower due to these devices implementation possibly caused Imperial Germanys defeat in the great War.

By: stormie24

stormie24 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:50:52 +0000

looks like an old radiator.

By: Some Canadian Skeptic

Some Canadian Skeptic — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:44:11 +0000

Looks like an oven to me, to be placed next to a fireplace

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:41:40 +0000

Oh! I know! It’s an instrument of torture!

By: diggedy

diggedy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:15:58 +0000

This is a Sootball helmet to protect the chimney-sweeps who were the primary players of Sootball. Note the mouthgard, nose-picker and vents for breathability.

By: DOJ

DOJ — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:01:47 +0000

it’s Matt LeBlanc’s mask from the movie “Lost in Space”

By: Cori

Cori — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:11:52 +0000

Steampunk hairnet.

By: Abbey

Abbey — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:16:44 +0000

Roly Poly Robot.

By: Lionheart

Lionheart — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:16:51 +0000

Ladies trap?

By: seekshelter

seekshelter — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:28:34 +0000

once…one of those arrived at my village and stole away some of my family and sold them to slave traders….

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:11:22 +0000

Armadillo trap?

By: SoLo

SoLo — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:25:53 +0000

OK, got word back from the kind folks at northern-antlers.com. Here’s what they wrote:

“Its called that because It looks like an Armadillo, It was actually used to catch muskrats alive. It was only made between 1925-1930 by the Gibbs Trap Co., they are bulky and It was not realistic to try and carry a dozen of them Into the marsh. Today they are a must have for collectors and are highly prized In any collection. The term “armadillo” Is slang and caught on In the later years by collectors, It was manufactured and sold as the ‘Gibbs live muskrat trap.’”

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:15:16 +0000

dead, biomechanical rolly polly

By: Eibmoz

Eibmoz — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:09:15 +0000

A hat stretcher?

By: Jaxx

Jaxx — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:46:10 +0000

Chastity device for male horses.

By: SoLo

SoLo — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:25:24 +0000

@ anon- heh, true said there… when it’s road-kill though, we call it possum on a half-shell

By: btown

btown — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:54:18 +0000

porcupine deporker

By: Zorah

Zorah — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:54:16 +0000

This is an automatic electric wig warmer designed by Thomas Edison. In those days, it was considered a luxury to be able to put a nice warm wig on your head before heading out in the cold.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:53:53 +0000

Who’d want to trap an armadillo?
They ain’t good eatin’ like opossum or squirrel

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:48:10 +0000

A Home for a Slinky

By: HaricotVert

HaricotVert — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:47:37 +0000

http://photo.gangus.com/d/26788-2/ackbar.jpg

/obligatory

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:18:11 +0000

I guess I just have a sick mind, because the first thing I thought was “medieval torture device”.

By: laamish

laamish — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:42:42 +0000

Wig-warmer.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:28:20 +0000

Phrenologists helmet, for feeling out cranial bumps.

By: ellanovak

ellanovak — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:24:02 +0000

hmmm…. shoe rack?

By: sise

sise — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:15:33 +0000

It’s probably called that because it totally looks like an armadillo.

Those things are freaky o.o

By: SoLo

SoLo — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:00:38 +0000

Yep, it’s a Gibbs Armadillo trap. Here is another image: http://northern-antlers.com/images/antiqu4.jpg

But the question remains, is it used to trap armadillos, or is it called that because it looks like an armadillo?

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:47:51 +0000

It’s clearly a vase.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:40:16 +0000

It’s a Roly Poly trap! Pill bugs, potato bugs and doodle bugs crawl over the oval rim at the bottom and flip on their backs. A den of spiders live hidden in Roly Poly-styled alcove above and simply swoop down to grab dinner.

This was a mail-order observation science toy when I was a kid. The spiders always arrived dead in the package and you had to collect new ones from around your home. The new ones never stayed put and you’d wake up at night with them crawling on you.

By: nibiyabi

nibiyabi — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:35:44 +0000

Prairie dog trap.

By: Sammy

Sammy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:29:28 +0000

Armadillo trap!

By: chris

chris — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:28:59 +0000

I’ts a beaver trap

By: browse

browse — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:16:02 +0000

It’s the shade for a baby carriage.

By: panicronic

panicronic — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:54:47 +0000

Its a turn of the turn of the century live trap for beaver.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:40:05 +0000

Yes, it’s a trap – but what kind of trap?

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:39:15 +0000

It’s an armadillo’s back pack.

By: Bret

Bret — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:29:50 +0000

It’s a roof vent

By: tripleX

tripleX — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:29:47 +0000

Looks like a trap. The spring makes it go down to the right side. You fold it open to the left to get the animal out (like a hedgehog) The string keeps the animal from walking away with it.

By: kusito

kusito — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:10:02 +0000

this is some sort of a trap! on the left hand side at the bottom is the activator.
the funny design is because its designed to fold it together for storage reasons!

By: luvpumpkns

luvpumpkns — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:08:00 +0000

a trap for some kind of animal. rats, perhaps?

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:04:03 +0000

Edwardian bicycle helmet former?