RIP Archie

The comic series Life With Archie will end soon, with Archie Andrews dying in issue #36, and issue #37 will be the last. Although the details are under wraps, Archie will sacrifice his life "for a dear friend." 

“We’ve been building up to this moment since we launched Life With Archie five years ago, and knew that any book that was telling the story of Archie’s life as an adult had to also show his final moment,” said Archie Comics Publisher/Co-CEO Jon Goldwater in a press release. “Archie has and always will represent the best in all of us—he’s a hero, good-hearted, humble and inherently honorable. This story is going to inspire a wide range of reactions because we all feel so close to Archie. Fans will laugh, cry, jump off the edge of their seats and hopefully understand why this comic will go down as one of the most important moments in Archie’s entire history. It’s the biggest story we’ve ever done, and we’re supremely proud of it.”

However, that’s just the series Life With Archie, which follows the Riverdale gang as they age into adults. The regular Archie Comics series, in which the characters are still teenagers, will continue as usual. To say goodbye to the adult Archie Andrews in style, issues #36 and #37 (which takes place a year after Archie’s death) will be released in multiple formats with many variant covers by acclaimed artists. You can see a roundup of some of those covers at Comics Alliance. -via Metafilter

(Image credit: Cliff Chiang)


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I have it on bad authority that this is a device used in training by the late contortionist Harry Houdini.
Two hours a day on this and he could escape from any tight situation.

Personally, I disagree,
Is this an old fashioned trouser press?
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I think it is something to press sheets of paper together before the pages were stiched or pasted. I seems that pressure was gained as the handle was twisted. Definitely it was used to manufacture books!
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This is an oldstyle penis enlarging kit with handles now only 2,99 ;)

but personally i think its a device to handle and lift materials in blocka [bricks maby]
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Its a curvicle. As a boy it my chore to go out to the chilling hut and curvicle the family's shoe points before Sunday church. This was quite a task before the epidemic. I had really hoped to never see one again, just looking at it makes my thumbs ache.
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It's a device used in the lost art of snake pressing. It was a common hobby back in the day but was deemed cruel and unnecessary by animal rights activists.

In order to keep the craft going many snake pressers moved on to flower pressing which proved more successful in the long run due to not only flowers being safer to obtain but much prettier to look at.
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I'm afraid I was beaten to the punch. Kevin said crank for tightening a rope bed, and I agree. Remember the phrase 'sleep tight'? That's where it came from.
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Contrary to popular belief, the original Spirograph was not invented nor marketed by Hasbro co., but rather, was an invention created hundreds of years earlier for woodcuts by none other than Leonardo DaVinci. Shown in the picture above is a modern-day replica taken from his notebooks in which the carving implement used to make the woodcut is inserted into the metal wheel in the middle of the device, and by holding the frame of the object against a flat surface, a "spirographic" design was geometrically etched into the template of a piece of wood by spinning the metal wheel in various arcs, later to be duplicated by relief printing the carved image therewith onto paper.
It is conjectured that DaVinci may have used this device to create his famous "Vitruvian Man", but that hypothesis has not been proven as of yet. However, ample circumstantial evidence via Leonardo's other sketches show that his mathematical prowess and geometric forms likely benefited greatly from having this 'prototypical spirograph' invention, and there are many proponents of this theory, in fact, a 10,000 dollar award is being offered by private investors in Italy to disprove that Leonardo used this device in his sketches. No one has claimed that prize yet.
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This is a bit off topic but the Canadian version of Antiques Roadshow has a whatsit. I tried contacting Rob at the what is it blog but couldn't find an address. Maybe you folks can help? http://www.canadianantiquesroadshow.com/tv_link_mystery_item.htm#
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This device is a simple clamp used by furniture makers circa 1900. The wooden rails were placed along the pieces needing clamped, and then the "dial" was wound up until one of the holes aligned with the hoop. This would hold the pieces in their place for gluing under compression.
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It is, obviously, an antique Scanner. Probabbly a Dell.

On a more serious note - Im gonna guess its an old clamp. Where when you turn the dial - the rope gets tighter and tighter pushing the two boards together. And the holes in the dial are so you can put a piece of wood, a stick of sorts, through it so that it does not unravel.

P.S. - If im right, email me :)
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It looks like it would be for squeezing and clamping something together. I would guess it's some sort of tourniquet used in surgeries. Possibly for clamping the umbilical cord after a mother gives birth.
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