What Is It? game 259 - Neatorama

Once again, it's time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Do you know what the object in this picture is? You can win even if you don't know!

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will each win a T-shirt from the NeatoShop.

Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?

Check out the What Is It? Blog for more pictures of the mystery object. Good luck!

Update: the mystery item is a a harness cutting machine that was made by The International Harness Manufacturing Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio. The first with the correct answer was ladybugs, who wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! The funniest answer was from MEM, who said. "It's a heavy-metal harpsichord; very heavy-metal." That's good for a t-shirt, too! Congratulations to both winners, and thanks to everyone who played along. See the answers to all this week's mystery items at the What Is It? blog.

A cutter for cutting / dressing the ends of leather belts of different width to a desired rounded shape???

hoppy holydays ladie's fit 2XL in the suggested colour

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Its the first version of the modern fingernail clipper. It worked but needed lots of adjustments, but it cut all your fingernails at once. The toenail clipper design never worked well though.

T shirt Blue XL 'Remember little zombies, no running'

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I have to agree with Berhard, that is what it is. I only wish I could have posted earlier as I enjoy the weekly mind battles.

Craig Clayton

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In my follow up thoughts on the belt end machine it is also called strap trim and the end cut pattern is a English Point style as I found on the Tandy leather site.

Seqret Cat Xl

Craig Clayton

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A DIY-bris machine. No mohel required!

"Brushed Skull"
Size: L
Color: Natural

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Instant Xylophone Maker !
You put a wood board with and a coper plate in between the jaws, pour some salt for harmonics, kick the pedal ... et Voila ! Instant Xylophone ! (sticks not included)

Mom's Going to Flip, light blue, L

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It is a finger break for sheet metal bending.

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I thought it was some sort of stomp shear.

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Simply, A circumcision machine.

Never Grow Up (Science T-Shirt). Small. Black

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Forget about what the thing is used for, I'm still trying
to figure out if the chalked number is 108 or 801 !!!

Inside every older person. XL.

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It's a really old-fashioned individual hot-dog cooker. Once the dogs are done, they get cut into bite sized pieces (for maximum deliciousness).

never grow up, women's small. black.

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This is one of the earliest examples of mass production being applied to the Jewish Bris - or ritual male circumcision! Why, with one of these devices you could circumcise up to thirteen lads at one time and save money to boot! Such a deal!

Look Out Schrodinger's Cat, It's a Trap! - Black - XXL

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It is very scary. Please don't hurt me with it!

Remember little zombies, no running Men's large black

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It's a perforator? There's one very much like it in the printshop I use.

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I'm going to say it is a pirates piano (for those pirates that have only one leg and one arm still attached)

Jung at Heart, L, Pink

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Keyboard that belonged to Fatso "The Keyboard Cat" great-great-great-great-great-grandpa Chubbo used in his vaudeville act.

PB Jellyfish, Ladies M, Serene Green

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It's a hurdy-girder.

Life on a Farm Med

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Maybe a stomp shear for reeds for an organ.

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Whoops I forgot a tshirt selection for my guess of "stomp shear for reeds for an organ"
A day without nuclear fusion in black XXL

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It's a heavy-metal harpsichord; very heavy-metal.

Life on a farm, med

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Fibonacci's sewing machine.

Battle Damage.

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While everyone knows George Washington had wooden false teeth, very few know that this machine was the one he used to actually make them. Teeth could be stamped out in varying sizes ranging from "Polite conversation and cucumber sandwiches" (on the left) to "Gonna have me a 7lb Bison steak" (around the middle) to his political battle-teeth "Let's play a game called "Bite Me"... I'll start!" (on the right). By mixing up a set of completely mis-matched teeth, he was also able to confuse the hell out of the British by shouting out random Austin Powers quotes during battle.

Office Guy Shirt & Tie XL

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A rare, original "Grahaminator" - an antique device that put those little tiny perforations in graham crackers.

XL Twaggies Logo

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A harness cutting machine

PB Jellyfish, Ladies M, Serene Green

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