This week's collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this strange contraption: can you guess what it is? (And no, it's not a magic lamp!)
Place your guess in the comment section - you can guess as many times as you'd like but please don't post any URL (let others play). No prize this week, you're playing for fun and bragging rights!
For more clues, check out What is It? Blog!
Update 11/23/07 - the answer is:
Candle lighter, it's filled with kerosene, which is carried by the cord through the tubing to the small holes.
Congratulations to James #7 who got it right! (I have to say that felix's answer of C3PO codpiece made me chuckle!)
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Great guesses you guys! C3PO codpiece, hah! Congrats to James #7 who got it right (it's a candle lighter).
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It is an old miner's lamp, oil wick circa turn of 19th century.
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It's an alcohol lamp. Similar models of modern manufacture are still sold.
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It's an inkwell from right around the turn of the century. That's my story & I'm sticking to it...
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hmm, you know in the trenches in ww1, the soldiers made things out of whatever they could find. it sort or looks like a cancle holder/snuffer made out of whatever some soldier could find.
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