This week's collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this strange metal object - for dimensions and another photo from a different angle, check out: What is It? Blog.
Guess what this strange object is and win a Free Neatorama T-Shirt! Place your guess in the comment section, but please, post no URL - let others play. The answer will be revealed tomorrow!
Update 4/6/07: The answer is ... nutcracker!
Nutcracker, placed on the knee when seated, a nut is set in the hole and then struck with a hammer. In the winter, these were warmed by the fire before using.
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Looks like Bill Clinton to me.
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wait a minute.where is your evidece, your expert museum person . where is the photo of another. Sorry ,it's a nutcracker is not enough. what kind of nut? acorn? brazil ,pecan how about a pistachio or a delious filbert i think maybe not
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The answer is ... nutcracker! No one got it, although Kev #13 was close in that he identified it was put on a knee.
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A welding mask for a giant cyclops?
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is it an iron nipple?
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