What is it? Game 113

1. Niel
   October 29th, 2009 at 7:26 am

   It's a piece of a whip. One of those with little weights on the end to cause maximum damage.

2. Cooder74
   October 29th, 2009 at 7:28 am

   It is an Apache War Hammer

3. pfelelep
   October 29th, 2009 at 7:28 am

   head smasher?

4. Lucas
   October 29th, 2009 at 7:33 am

   It´s a "Boleadora". A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, designed to capture animals by entangling their legs.

5. Tim Giachetti
   October 29th, 2009 at 7:41 am

   It's a simple old fashioned "Black jack".
   For bashing someone un-concious in the commission of a robbery, or more often, shang hi. This one looks rather old so I would say for knocking out sailors and endenturing them to ship duties.

6. Eeyore
   October 29th, 2009 at 7:50 am

   Amish BuggyNutz after a horrible accident.

7. Craig
   October 29th, 2009 at 7:51 am

   I think I saw one of those in an S&M shop.

8. Zanuha
   October 29th, 2009 at 8:13 am

   It's an instrument of torture.

9. Zanuha
   October 29th, 2009 at 8:14 am

   Beat you to it!

10. Paul Alloy
    October 29th, 2009 at 8:34 am

    It is a pocket knocker/sap/kosh/blackjack or whatever it is called in your part of the world. It is a pocket sized "tool" used to knock an opponent out cold with one smack to the head (if done correctly, results may vary).

11. Miss Cellania
    October 29th, 2009 at 8:36 am

    Yeah, that's an instrument of torture.

12. Jackie
    October 29th, 2009 at 8:39 am

    looks like poi- light them on fire and spin them around.

13. Kenn
    October 29th, 2009 at 9:05 am

    Its half a bolo throwing device.

14. nihil
    October 29th, 2009 at 9:06 am

    It's the foot of an old claw foot bathtub.

15. bedrik
    October 29th, 2009 at 9:28 am

    its a part of a bola or a Perdida (bolas with only one weight)

16. R.Guile
    October 29th, 2009 at 9:31 am

    Yep, it's a sap or blackjack. The leather ball at the end is filled with lead. The strap goes around the wrist, it's held by the thin handle, and used to whack an unsuspecting person on the back of the head to knock them out.

17. eni
    October 29th, 2009 at 10:03 am

    That definitely looks like an Indian war club.

18. Martin
    October 29th, 2009 at 10:31 am

    I'm going with dog toy.

19. fred petrick
    October 29th, 2009 at 10:46 am

    It's a loggerhead, used to heat tar on sailing ships without igniting it.

20. The pesh
    October 29th, 2009 at 10:47 am

    Cooder74 is right. It's definitely a native American war hammer. These were made by various tribes from the mid Atlantic indian nations to plains nations and even the nations of the american southwest and Mexico. I can't tell which this is, but it is definitely a war hammer.

    It is not a bolo or a throwing device. The strap off the handle towards the left is to secure it on the wrist (like a wii mote)

21. Five_Fingers
    October 29th, 2009 at 11:16 am

    Blackjack/sap

22. BScane
    October 29th, 2009 at 11:19 am

    It's either a sap or one of Harry Belafonte's balls.

23. Scott Carney
    October 29th, 2009 at 11:33 am

    pain

24. sushirama
    October 29th, 2009 at 11:41 am

    monkeysfist for throwing mooring lines

25. Mitch
    October 29th, 2009 at 11:42 am

    It's a device used by the Puritans to wake people up by hitting them on the head if they fell asleep in church.

26. mikerbaker
    October 29th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    It's a hammer from the sport of hammer throw. The handle has broken from the strap.

27. PJ
    October 29th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    It's for playing "Conkers."

28. Alasdair
    October 29th, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    It's... I forget the actual name of it, but it's a Scottish Weapon.

    It was shown on the "Deadliest Warrior" episode "William Wallace VS Shaka Zulu"; Williams Ball and Chain.

29. mikos
    October 29th, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    Medieval POI!

30. ECA
    October 29th, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    Its a War club

    A Rock covered in leather

31. Bradley
    October 29th, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    It looks like a blackjack to me. My relatives were Pinkerton men and used these to subdue steel workers during the Homestead Steel Strike.

32. Cnidaria
    October 29th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    Could be a leather button. The strip on the end is stitched onto clothes for stability.

33. bridget
    October 29th, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    it's an antique lawn dart.

34. rartef
    October 29th, 2009 at 9:56 pm

    I was wondering were my other ear ring went.

35. Renee
    October 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    It's a Black Jack. The ball is metal, the handle would have had a piece of spring steel or sometimes a coiled spring. The broken end probably used to be a wrist strap. My Great Grandfather was a harness maker, and made these illegal little devils on the side for cash in the 20's and 30's. And yes, it's a head smasher.

36. sc0tty
    October 29th, 2009 at 11:37 pm

    A club shaped like a musical note that rings its tone out when struck against a human head. Used by music teacher of early 20th century boarding schools.

37. Metis
    October 30th, 2009 at 12:35 am

    I can't quite tell from the angle, but I think it might be an ancient type of ladle. The handle has a tube running through it and there are holes on the bottom.

    You dip the ball into water, let it fill up, then plug the tube with your thumb. Pressure keeps the water inside the ball, and you can then pour the water out as you will.

38. Alloy A
    October 30th, 2009 at 7:29 am

    If I had ancestors that were Pinkerton thugs, I would be too ashamed to mention it in public. Too unskilled to have real jobs, or even be mercenaries, so they just went around beating and shooting people that the rich told them to attack. Good people.

39. Randall
    October 30th, 2009 at 7:47 am

    This is a Bolanga, a device for controlling staliions, used on ranches in Bolivia.

    When a mare goes into heat the neighboring stallions will jump fences to get at her, so to stop this they attach the bolanga to the testicles of the stallion. One experience of jumping a fence will train a stallion for life.

    Oddly enough, In Bolivia 'Bolanga' is slang for 'divorce lawyer.'

40. Bobby the K
    October 30th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    ~

    It's not a weapon. It was used to condition, break up or soften loose bulky stuff that was in a bag.

41. taz
    November 1st, 2009 at 11:42 am

    blackjack or sap

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