What is it? Game 85

First.

Now that is funny…no-one has ever done that before.

I’d have to say this is a candle snuffer.

pencil holder

I’m gonna guess…. uuuhm… it holds a small flag pole. Like a wall mounted kind of thing *shrug*

Candle Snuffer. To further elaborate, you hold the paddle handle, and bring it down over the candle. The ‘top’ end (the end away from the handle) of the tube is close, to prevent air or snuff the candle.

Today isn’t Christmas …

Is it wine bottle opener?

Lew

Alex, where do you FIND these things? :O

I think its a torch holder

It’s a spanking paddle device for really naughty children. There’s a hollow cylinder where you put the battery and a metal bolt that sticks through the paddle. When contact is made on the child’s bottom, a small electrical charge is emitted, causing extra “shock”. The paddle handle is wooden so the paddler doesn’t get the electrical shock, only the paddlee. If the child is not so bad, just take the battery out and give a normal thwack to their bottom (sans electricity).

Usually just the sight of this device is enough to improve any child’s behavior.

It’s one reason why spanking is being outlawed in many places.

It’s a paddle, used as an instrument of torture.

The paddle is used by special weapons and tactics teams for assaults on barricaded suspects. A flashbang is inserted into the circular holder on the paddle. Like the atlatl of the Aztecs, the paddle is swung overhead and the flashbang (or HE grenade) is thrown much further than a man could throw it unassisted. This is a crucial component of any SWAT member’s loadout.

Honestly? It looks to me like a paddle-ball set that’s lost the string and ball. The tube-y thing would be for catching the ball in.

That is a racquet grenade, for French WW1 soldiers, or persons who are very competitive at ping-pong.

The cylinder was stuffed with a charge and shrapnel, a little pipe bomb on a stick.

Thats my grans bondage toy.

Its a Calendar?!

a weighted putty knife

to be worn inside apnts to give the impression of an ever proud package

for making “tostones”

In the Great War, the Germans developed the stick grenade, where a wood handle screwed into an explosive head. To make shrapnel, a sleeve called a splittering could be put over the head.

I think the “paddle” was an antipersonnel mine. The casting resembles a splittering. The first crew would go along 50 yards in front of the trench using a pipe and hammer to make holes in the ground the right size for the paddle handles. They’d insert a handle and tamp earth around it.

The second crew would put grenade heads into the splitterings and stretch trip lines.

This appears to be an old ball and cup game that may have been made with old materials. The nail that is above the cup would have once held a ball on a string. The ball being slightly smaller than the cup. Children and adults would then try to slide the ball into the cup without touching the ball or the cup?

Finger cutter torture device?

Maybe it’s for catching or keeping leeches, or snails or something. You let it float with the container in the water. And pull it behind the boat if you go. Looks like there was a lid once.

Put a weight in it and whatever you hit (dust out of a carpet, or meat or whatever) gets hit with more power because of the outward force.

I don’t know, could also be used for spanking while shaking a cocktail at the same time. Those dominatrixes can be very efficient.

My last guess, honestly. Could it be a thing for collecting toll money for boats? They hang or throw it from a bridge on a rope, so someone on the boat can put money in it. Could have been a sign with the price under the nail.