Comments on: What Is It? Game 114

By: contrary

contrary — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:51:12 +0000

Looks like something used in the processing of raw leather.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:37:49 +0000

It’s a bowling ball tester, obviously.

By: samvarady

samvarady — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:27:47 +0000

An old fashion Tummy Flatner?

By: Randall

Randall — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:13:49 +0000

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.’

By: fajji

fajji — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:55:19 +0000

real “tongue twister”

By: rowlind

rowlind — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:55:03 +0000

goods friends

By: Lynn Dizzle

Lynn Dizzle — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:54:15 +0000

tis a paper folder.

By: amy barnes

amy barnes — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:10:30 +0000

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.

By: michaelchael K

michaelchael K — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:31:34 +0000

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

By: sugam

sugam — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:30:21 +0000

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

By: Jaded Unicorn

Jaded Unicorn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:55:35 +0000

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.

By: Mongo

Mongo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:29:02 +0000

A medical device for constipation.

By: dawn boone

dawn boone — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:33:22 +0000

An old fashioned butter churn

By: Holliloki

Holliloki — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:57:39 +0000

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. )

By: Luke S

Luke S — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:48:32 +0000

Primitive Slap-Chop

By: Luke S

Luke S — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:47:16 +0000

Old fashioned golf ball cleaner.

By: pwscott

pwscott — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:01:12 +0000

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.

By: prstein

prstein — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:01:51 +0000

Tongue scraper

By: huh?

huh? — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:55:22 +0000

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.

By: Cheezwhiz

Cheezwhiz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:52:04 +0000

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.

By: Anon of Ibid

Anon of Ibid — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:01:31 +0000

It’s obviously a grenade.

By: fartypants

fartypants — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:34:09 +0000

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

By: Kristin

Kristin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:54:14 +0000

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

By: PC

PC — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:22:31 +0000

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

By: Michal P

Michal P — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:10:08 +0000

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.

By: Robster

Robster — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:53:01 +0000

It’s a Fire extinguisher

By: BScane

BScane — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:50:02 +0000

It’s a sap…..or was that last week?

By: Ian Ross

Ian Ross — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:25:33 +0000

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.

By: mr weaver

mr weaver — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:58:42 +0000

seal club

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:42:01 +0000

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.

By: Jessie

Jessie — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:35:46 +0000

Wallpaper remover?

By: Spencer Pittman

Spencer Pittman — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:16:44 +0000

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

By: Scivitri

Scivitri — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:13:23 +0000

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

By: somkindawizard

somkindawizard — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:11:07 +0000

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

By: Brainy Brandon

Brainy Brandon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:10:37 +0000

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.

By: slim22

slim22 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:09:10 +0000

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

By: Patrick Neumann

Patrick Neumann — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:04:21 +0000

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.

By: JOHN SCALLORN

JOHN SCALLORN — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:59:20 +0000

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

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:44:03 +0000

Victorian butt plug!

By: ey.look.TURKEYS

ey.look.TURKEYS — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:37:37 +0000

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

Old-school iPod dock.

By: mr weaver

mr weaver — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:36:14 +0000

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

By: Tybigs

Tybigs — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:28:08 +0000

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

By: UnderpantsGnome

UnderpantsGnome — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:21:45 +0000

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

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:14:09 +0000

I believe that’s an instrument of torture.

By: chaserchap

chaserchap — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:09:55 +0000

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*

By: chaserchap

chaserchap — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:07:17 +0000

It’s a safety razor.

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:00:48 +0000

Strop holder.

By: Mila

Mila — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:50:48 +0000

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.

By: barkingbee

barkingbee — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:26:05 +0000

Saddle girth tightener

By: @billy_johnson

@billy_johnson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:20:08 +0000

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.