What Is It? Game 114

1. sushirama
   November 5th, 2009 at 7:41 am

   sock darner

2. Jim
   November 5th, 2009 at 7:53 am

   Not a sock darner with that handle; I remember my Grandmother using one. More likely some type of early machine like a butter churn or primative Veg-O-Matic.

3. lgoode
   November 5th, 2009 at 8:00 am

   19th Century bowling pin. Victorian-era bowling alleys did not have automatic pin setters. The pins were picked up and repositioned by under-fed orphaned waifs . The handles atop the pins helped the tiny orphans reset the pins quickly so they could scurry out the path of on-coming bowling balls.

4. Bobby the K
   November 5th, 2009 at 8:02 am

   ~

   O.K. - Back in the day they didn't have porn movies, but they had porn theatres...

5. Dan B
   November 5th, 2009 at 8:04 am

   It's a bowling pin pump. Inflates bowling pins.

6. jchoyt
   November 5th, 2009 at 8:12 am

   Top "plug" for a chamber pot to keep the odor contained.

7. Zanuha
   November 5th, 2009 at 8:16 am

   It's an instrument of torture.

8. janik
   November 5th, 2009 at 8:55 am

   It is, of course, some sort of device with which you calibrate a bowling pin setting machine. Hence the pin-like bottom and the handle.

9. Miss Frenchy
   November 5th, 2009 at 9:03 am

   Husband beater.

10. DragonLost
    November 5th, 2009 at 9:08 am

    all those scuff marks in the same place tell me its used to hit something.

    im gonna have to say old-school ban-hammer

11. pumpkynlyon
    November 5th, 2009 at 9:09 am

    cheese slicer

12. wit of a twit
    November 5th, 2009 at 9:17 am

    It's used as a visualization tool. You visualize the bowling bowl hitting the pins.

13. @billy_johnson
    November 5th, 2009 at 9:18 am

    definitely looks like an artistic toilet paper roll holder...just sayin'.

14. @billy_johnson
    November 5th, 2009 at 9:20 am

    an early submarine model with periscope. They knew bottles floated, so decided to put a periscope in it, but turns out bottles don't like to stay upright. really sucked for the test pilot.

15. barkingbee
    November 5th, 2009 at 9:26 am

    Saddle girth tightener

16. Mila
    November 5th, 2009 at 9:50 am

    It looks like a tiny lamp- but it's a lamp used in the home of a blind person. That way, things look right to sighted people, but the blind person doesn't accidentally burn themselves on a real lamp.

17. Edward
    November 5th, 2009 at 10:00 am

    Strop holder.

18. chaserchap
    November 5th, 2009 at 10:07 am

    It's a safety razor.

19. chaserchap
    November 5th, 2009 at 10:09 am

    Dr. Amazing's Wrinkle Remover! Combined with our tonic water, this amazing product will remove any and all signs of aging. Two doses daily, immediately followed by rubbing our patented remover across all wrinkled skin surfaces will leave you looking, and feeling, young again! It's like an iron for your skin! But don't worry, it won't burn! *insert cheesy grin*

20. Miss Cellania
    November 5th, 2009 at 10:14 am

    I believe that's an instrument of torture.

21. UnderpantsGnome
    November 5th, 2009 at 10:21 am

    It's a Genie Plug, shown here entrapping a genie in a wooden bottle.

22. Tybigs
    November 5th, 2009 at 10:28 am

    It is Vince's, from Slap Chop, first prototype slap chop. He is going to make you skinny again one slap at a time!

23. mr weaver
    November 5th, 2009 at 10:36 am

    It is a weight to be held, usually in pairs, to keep your arms from flying away. My great-granddad had a set,

24. ey.look.TURKEYS
    November 5th, 2009 at 10:37 am

    See that thing on the top? It's kind of rectangularish and shiny.

    Old-school iPod dock.

25. Tim Giachetti
    November 5th, 2009 at 10:44 am

    Victorian butt plug!

26. JOHN SCALLORN
    November 5th, 2009 at 10:59 am

    Its a hand iron, not to iron your hand but to iron small areas

27. Patrick Neumann
    November 5th, 2009 at 11:04 am

    This is an early form of exercise weight. It is sometimes called an indian club. It was generally waved around in different patterns in different exercise routines.

28. slim22
    November 5th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    It's for beating the dust out of throw rugs.

29. Brainy Brandon
    November 5th, 2009 at 11:10 am

    This is an original Flit sprayer. The later ones were made of tin. I recognised it immediately because my grandfather had one. Unfortunately it had beetle so it leaked badly.

30. somkindawizard
    November 5th, 2009 at 11:11 am

    it looks like an old style of hammer used in the hammer throw.

31. Scivitri
    November 5th, 2009 at 11:13 am

    It's a hand mill, such as a pepper mill or salt mill.

32. Spencer Pittman
    November 5th, 2009 at 11:16 am

    It's obviously a face shaper. Before we had plastic surgery.

33. Jessie
    November 5th, 2009 at 11:35 am

    Wallpaper remover?

34. Rob
    November 5th, 2009 at 11:42 am

    It is a old style of weight used in a hammer throw type of competition. You would hold the handle and spin around and then let it go.

35. mr weaver
    November 5th, 2009 at 11:58 am

    seal club

36. Ian Ross
    November 5th, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    Looks to me like a pin from an old bowling game I have seen where the pins aren't knocked down, but rather attached to a pivot point above them. When the pin is hit, it retracts into the ceiling and is released back down (reset) for the next turn.

37. BScane
    November 5th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    It's a sap.....or was that last week?

38. Robster
    November 5th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    It's a Fire extinguisher

39. Michal P
    November 5th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    That's used at fish farms, the first person uses it to make holes in the water, then the second person plants one fish egg in each hole. Someone else comes behind the egg-planters with a hose to fill in the holes. It's a very efficient system.

40. PC
    November 5th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    It's an old school fire piston, for starting fires!

41. Kristin
    November 5th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Maybe it's a wooden bottle mold...for making glass bottles..maybe milk bottles..

42. fartypants
    November 5th, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    That my good friend is a user-friendly butt-plug (not as friendly to the end user though, I imagine)

43. Anon of Ibid
    November 5th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    It's obviously a grenade.

44. Cheezwhiz
    November 5th, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    It's an old-fashioned stand mixer (hey, didn't I guess that already?). I presume that you pour what needs to be mixed through the hole near the top, and after pumping/turning the handle, you pour out mixture through the same hole.

45. huh?
    November 5th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    the original penis pump.

    It required 2 people to operate. The man had the option of having his partner help, which proved to be somewhat of a mood killer. Or, he could have a friend help though when caught, it caused many an awkward situation. Hence many men desperate enough to use one, had a family member help... this reduced the rumors that would go around, but also made the family dinner very uncomfortable.

    Shortly afterwards it was redesigned in it's current, "help yourself" format.

46. prstein
    November 5th, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    Tongue scraper

47. pwscott
    November 5th, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    Ok a lot of you went the bowling pin route. You almost had it, EXCEPT that it is for strengthening your hand and arm for a bowling BALL. That is why the handle is so wide. It keeps your fingers at the proper distance during training.

48. Luke S
    November 5th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    Old fashioned golf ball cleaner.

49. Luke S
    November 5th, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    Primitive Slap-Chop

50. Holliloki
    November 5th, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    That's easy. This is a tool used to shape woolen hats. The hatter would place the hat on the pin, and push this into a liquid mercury bath, purging out the moisture from the wool. By the shape of this one, I would think it was used to make a womans' hat, a 1930's style cloche. (The expression "Mad as a hatter" comes from the damage done by exposure to the fumes of mercury. )

51. dawn boone
    November 5th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    An old fashioned butter churn

52. Mongo
    November 5th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    A medical device for constipation.

53. Jaded Unicorn
    November 5th, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    I think it might be an Udder Massager for bovines. How does one get the best milk? Massage it out! Happy cows, better milk! The handle looks like it might have a cow bell on it.

54. sugam
    November 5th, 2009 at 11:30 pm

    you put grapes and small fruits to make juice and stuff....

55. michaelchael K
    November 5th, 2009 at 11:31 pm

    Probably a mold used to dip into rubber or latex to make balloons

56. amy barnes
    November 6th, 2009 at 1:10 am

    I'm thinking this tool is used when placing large stickers or other adhesive materials on a flat surface. The rounded, wooden edge is used to smooth out any air holes and allow for a smooth, flawless finish.

57. Lynn Dizzle
    November 6th, 2009 at 2:54 am

    tis a paper folder.

58. rowlind
    November 6th, 2009 at 3:55 am

    goods friends

59. fajji
    November 6th, 2009 at 8:55 am

    real "tongue twister"

60. Randall
    November 6th, 2009 at 11:13 am

    This is a comblestobber, possibly the oddest musical and most dangerous instrument ever devised. When electricity was new it was put to many uses and making 'electric' music was a brief and often fatal fad. The 'combler', while suspended within a rolling ball like metal cage, which would by 'rolled' along a charged grid, would acheive various senthized notes by swinging the charged comblestobber in small curving arcs, without touching, but almost making contact with the cage. Surviving audience members described the experience and 'electrifying.'

61. samvarady
    November 6th, 2009 at 11:27 am

    An old fashion Tummy Flatner?

62. Mitch
    November 6th, 2009 at 11:37 am

    It's a bowling ball tester, obviously.

63. contrary
    November 6th, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    Looks like something used in the processing of raw leather.

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