This week's collaboration with the What is it? Blog is super easy (maybe) - can you guess what the object above is used for?
Two prizes this week: a free Neatorama T-shirt for the first correct guess and another one for the funniest, but incorrect one. Place your guess in the comment section - one guess per comment, though you can enter as many as you can think of. Post no URLs or weblinks - let others play (if you do, you'll forfeit the prize).
For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog - Have fun and good luck!
Update 7/3/09 - the answer is: A golf ball marker, according to the patent:The object of the invention is to provide an instrument for impressing a distinctive mark, as the initials of a person, upon golf balls and the like, whereby, the ownership of said balls will be indicated and said balls returned to their owners, if lost and later found.
The part with the black handle is used to apply the ink, patent number 1,281,063..
Congrats to the winners: Jared, who got it right first, and Sam Saturday, who got me crackin' with "pocket mohel"!
Comments (73)
BTW I don't think identifying the Stevenson Staple Sucker is "easy" for the average "staple ignorant" population. Also, Stevenson later went on to change the name of his company to ACME and was very successful, especially due to an excellent product delivery system.
Like one seals used on letters in the old days to identify the sender, and verify that the letter has not been opened.
My balls are monogrammed, with my DNA.
Or a p3n!s monogramming device.
Yes, some might get donated to worth causes, but a large number of them go to facilities where they are sorted and shredded so that the paper can be recycled.
Perhaps some of those books that were destined to be destroyed made there way into this sculpture instead.
I do wonder, as others have, however, what happens when the books get wet.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150253603399618&set=a.211168469617.124260.613474617&type=3&theater
in the rain
Well she thought of it first.
Yawn!