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Jim
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.
lgoode
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.
Bobby the K
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O.K. – Back in the day they didn’t have porn movies, but they had porn theatres…
janik
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.
DragonLost
all those scuff marks in the same place tell me its used to hit something.
im gonna have to say old-school ban-hammer
wit of a twit
It’s used as a visualization tool. You visualize the bowling bowl hitting the pins.
@billy_johnson
definitely looks like an artistic toilet paper roll holder…just sayin’.
@billy_johnson
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.
Mila
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.
chaserchap
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*
UnderpantsGnome
It’s a Genie Plug, shown here entrapping a genie in a wooden bottle.
Tybigs
It is Vince’s, from Slap Chop, first prototype slap chop. He is going to make you skinny again one slap at a time!
mr weaver
It is a weight to be held, usually in pairs, to keep your arms from flying away. My great-granddad had a set, 
ey.look.TURKEYS
See that thing on the top? It’s kind of rectangularish and shiny.
Old-school iPod dock.
JOHN SCALLORN
Its a hand iron, not to iron your hand but to iron small areas
Patrick Neumann
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.
Brainy Brandon
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.
somkindawizard
it looks like an old style of hammer used in the hammer throw.
Spencer Pittman
It’s obviously a face shaper. Before we had plastic surgery.
Rob
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.
Ian Ross
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.
Michal P
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.
Kristin
Maybe it’s a wooden bottle mold…for making glass bottles..maybe milk bottles..
fartypants
That my good friend is a user-friendly butt-plug (not as friendly to the end user though, I imagine)
Cheezwhiz
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.
huh?
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.
pwscott
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.
Holliloki
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. )
Jaded Unicorn
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.
michaelchael K
Probably a mold used to dip into rubber or latex to make balloons
amy barnes
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.
Randall
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.’
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Jessie
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Robster
PC
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prstein
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Mongo
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