What Is It? Game 96

1. Craig
   April 23rd, 2009 at 8:17 am

   I'm not sure what it is, but someone could probably figure out how to smoke pot out of it.

2. Gauldar
   April 23rd, 2009 at 8:31 am

   It's a French Grenade Launcher attachment from around in the 1700s. The problem with them is that they had a bad habit of exploding and blowing your arm off.

3. Foreigner1
   April 23rd, 2009 at 8:34 am

   A Roman-era gearshifthandle for horses.

4. Peter Kelly
   April 23rd, 2009 at 8:37 am

   I am so impressed with this game.
   I have never been able to guess what any of these objects are.
   I am 41, have been to 35 countries, have had tons of jobs and am very curious about the world. I love to make stuff, take things apart, figure things out...
   How do you so consistently baffle me?
   

5. Alan Nolan
   April 23rd, 2009 at 8:51 am

   It's obviously the first Doctor's sonic screwdriver.

6. Autumn
   April 23rd, 2009 at 8:53 am

   i'm going with a pepper grind, i don't know why, but thats what i'm gonna say. and i know i'm so wrong with that.

7. Wok
   April 23rd, 2009 at 9:00 am

   @ Craig

   Dammit man, I was just about to say that.

8. Susie
   April 23rd, 2009 at 9:11 am

   Is it perhaps a detonator for something? That looks like a button on the end. Or a gameshow buzzer?!

9. John Hayes
   April 23rd, 2009 at 9:25 am

   It looks like an antique front end suspension part or shock absorber for some type of vehicle. ( maybe a horse drawn fire truck )

10. McJohnny
    April 23rd, 2009 at 9:29 am

    Coffee mill.

11. CB
    April 23rd, 2009 at 9:33 am

    Its hold gun powder for muzzle loading gunds. you put the powder in the big und and the small end goes into the tip of the barrel. Not for sure but it might even put a measured amount in to the barrel.

12. P. Lobster
    April 23rd, 2009 at 9:50 am

    Looks to be some sort of whistle? Or could be a brass powder horn (for gun powder).

13. Goodness Gracie
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:09 am

    I think it's a toilet flush lever.

14. jmanna
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:14 am

    @P. Lobster I think you close correct. Looks like a ship's horn or a steamboat whistle. The other side probably has a slit here the air comes out to create the sound.

15. TrixRabbi
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:18 am

    Is it a crack pipe?

16. Sweet Jesus
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:23 am

    Who's got my golden arm?

17. O.lever
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:29 am

    i think it may be some kind of telescope or similar - i think you open both ends then look in the top and it shows far away.

18. Leucadian
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:34 am

    A calliope whistle.

19. apoch003
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:40 am

    Looks very much like an organ pipe, or as said before a caliope whistle.

20. Preston
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:10 am

    It's an inkwell. Actually I have no idea what the thing is but I sure do love your blog.

21. NewRyanB
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:20 am

    it's either a penny-whistle or a moon-pie

22. Mouserz
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:30 am

    Its probably (not) a pipe and/or a whistle of sorts.

23. RBD
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:30 am

    An antique lightsaber. Possibly Yoda's first, when he was a young padawan.

24. Ric
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:37 am

    It's a mobile candle, or lantern with an open flame. the wick is in the capped end and you hold onto the area where the fuel is stored , and it slowly dispenses into the capped are giving it a constant supply. That or for smoking pot... probably both.

25. schwimmer11
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:40 am

    its a small whistle or maybe a powder horn but that isn't very likely

26. OddNumber
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:44 am

    a steampunk kazoo?

27. Larry
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:48 am

    An old shock absorber.

28. grumpy
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:49 am

    I think it's a powder horn for measuring cannon rounds.

29. Goba
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:54 am

    it is a door nob !!

30. kimsquess
    April 23rd, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    a bullet reloader

31. Gauldar
    April 23rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    The first pump ever developed for extracting milk from a woman’s breast?

32. stormie24
    April 23rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    a steam whistle.

33. Alasdair
    April 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    It's a wind-up lever for an antique rechargable flashlight.
    The lever on mine looked a lot like this, and broke off easily, thus the reason it's by itself.

34. Nataly
    April 23rd, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    Im going with a guess that its a huge whistle.

35. Livia
    April 23rd, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    That thing for opening doors... I don't know its name in english...

36. Christophe
    April 23rd, 2009 at 2:23 pm

    It's the Apache, a 19th century personal protection gadget.

37. Foreigner1
    April 23rd, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    Noooo this is not the Apache Cristophe!
    This is a Comanche
    Or a Kiowa
    Or perhaps even an Assiniboin or a Tillamook.
    But definitely not an Apache.
    Incredible that you can't see thát...!

    And my guess is that it is used to give measured doses of powdery substance for medical purposes. Like cocain or stuff like that.

38. Karen Krentz
    April 23rd, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    A sprinkler. Used for sprinkling water on clothing to produce steam when ironing clothes.

39. Jac
    April 23rd, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    This is a pressure indicator. When a certain amount of pounds per square inch is reached, it sounds and releases.

40. apoch003
    April 23rd, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    why of course!! It's a candle snuffer!!

41. apoch003
    April 23rd, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    I didn't say that! Who's logging in as me?

42. Judy
    April 23rd, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    I believe it's an OLD milk bottle to feed a baby.

43. cameron
    April 23rd, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    Alex, I'm offended by the phallic nature of this device. Not really - I just have no idea what it is and wanted to chime in...

44. Bugwok
    April 23rd, 2009 at 9:06 pm

    it's to put those small rivets in my Levis

45. George
    April 23rd, 2009 at 9:19 pm

    Looks very much like the lower section of a rear shock absorber for either a 1926 or '27 Durant

46. tikay36
    April 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm

    gotta be a device to break a glass window, like when a car ends up in water and the windows no longer work.

47. krungle
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:32 pm

    Is it a shock absorber from an old motorcycle? Perhaps a Vincent or something.

48. Ali S.
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:35 pm

    It's a manly version of a Kazoo!

49. Paul C.
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:47 pm

    it looks like an old version of shock absorber used to be connected to a tie rod.

50. Shannon
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    It looks like a train whistle.

51. Nat
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    Paperweight. Without a doubt it works as a paperweight.

52. artsnarf
    April 24th, 2009 at 2:10 am

    Looks like a brake cylinder from a very old car

53. JohnH
    April 24th, 2009 at 2:44 am

    Is it..... useless?

54. Jared
    April 24th, 2009 at 4:11 am

    Hmmm, A Gavel perhaps?

55. Jared
    April 24th, 2009 at 4:16 am

    or an arabian royal socket wrench

56. Tyler11
    April 24th, 2009 at 5:05 am

    Its a milk carton!

57. Jamie
    April 24th, 2009 at 8:29 am

    Captain's whistle? (ship)

58. eightvans
    April 24th, 2009 at 8:49 am

    Looks vaguely electrical to me. Is it an old-timey medical device to apply current to a part of the body?

59. Hole In The Donut
    April 24th, 2009 at 9:19 am

    An antique doorbell?

60. Foreigner1
    April 24th, 2009 at 9:20 am

    A Steampunk Wii or what is that thing called where you can move things in a computergame by spastically moving this wireless thingamagic?

61. dom
    April 24th, 2009 at 9:56 am

    It's a conversation piece. Unless you get frisked, then it's the fifth amendment.

62. Randall
    April 24th, 2009 at 9:58 am

    This is a Rikel Pipper. It is for measureing the depth of pips in die. In 1946 a rash of altered dice were discovered in use in casinos. To stop this a bonded pip-man would randomly measure the depth of pips in dies used in games. I know this because my grandfather had this job, and used to let me have the rejected dice, which I took to school and funded my college education with.

63. hoss
    April 24th, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    tie rod end, for a slow car

64. apoch003
    April 24th, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    A whale oil lamp?

65. ted
    April 24th, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    Why would a whale need an oil lamp?
    Do they stay lit better underwater?

66. Foreigner1
    April 25th, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    Well... okay, I knew it gets pretty dark deep down under in the deep seas. But I would never in the world have guessed that some whales were so technically advanced...! I mean, if they could invent this, why then didn't they also invent whale-harpoons to shoot back...?

67. ted
    April 25th, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    Foreigner1:
    Because they're Pacificists.

    I just won Pun of the Year Award with that one.

68. Slick1968
    June 10th, 2009 at 9:49 am

    Tie Rod End for A 1920 Ford

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