Its a shogle. Wyoming cowboys affix thewm to more nimble beeves so that they may graze on hillsides too steep for unshogled animals. This led to the the term 'shogle-footed' for describing successful social climbers. At least among Wyoming cowboys.

It is a stick with one end covered with metal. There is a loop of leather string threaded through a hole at the other end.

This is eine EisBergZerkratzenZange, or Iceberg grapnel. In 1932, The German navy in a co-enterprise with an Austrian inventor, Helmut Klank, attempted to tow icebergs from the Bering strait to Morrocco, seeking to sell the mountains of fresh water to thirsty african nations. Hundred of these grapnels would be attached to a small flotilla of Naval vessels and moved. The project failed when the Iceberg shattered from the stress, causing several injuries from snapped towlines an flying grapnels. One sailor, a former artist and WW1 veteran was in a coma for several days. When he awoke, he thought he had been struck down by another crewmember, one Eli Goldberg, whom he he had argued with earlier. When it was explained to him his suffering was from the towing accident, he stated 'Iceberg! Goldberg! What's the difference!'

It is a modern Batu-Sen. In the Geiso sect of the Shinto religon it is believed that a persons Fen-fu, or sould energy can be harnessed and stored in an open clear container. Ornate Glass Fen-fu containors show up at antinque shops the world over under various misnomers. To fill the container the practioner bends at the waist, holding the tube to their forhead, chanting 'Owata' and to empty it in time of need, they 'pour' the invisible contents onto their head while standing and chanting 'Goo-siam.'

This is a Bissel Wampner, for realligning the plimsol marks on military cargo ships. Incorrect plimsol marks led to leeward warpage, especially on the Great Lakes of America and the western Caspian Sea. Originally the task of alignment went to the newest or least popular member, but with the implementation of The Maritime Safety Act off 1963, the alignment is performed by a trained monkey, or for ships flagged by the British Isles, a welshman.

This is a Rikel Pipper. It is for measureing the depth of pips in die. In 1946 a rash of altered dice were discovered in use in casinos. To stop this a bonded pip-man would randomly measure the depth of pips in dies used in games. I know this because my grandfather had this job, and used to let me have the rejected dice, which I took to school and funded my college education with.

It is not a meat grinder! It is a musical instrument, called a Krutchenatoria No. 7. It was played in the 1860's by traveling musicians throughout europe. Seen in marketplaces and streetcorners, they fell into disfavor by their gradual association with harlotry, eventually being banned by writ of a papal bull.

Its sound, when played properly, is curiously arousing.

Used as a rug beater for years this artifact was adiscovered to have been stolen from the tomb of Kutchetechtun. The pharoah Tuts personal animal handler. Pictographs of found in the tomb disply that this was a tool used in the circumcism of Elephants.

I've always thought chess was not a wargame, but a game of court intrique. The white kiing is the ruling king and the black seeks to usrp the white. Bishops are the princes of the clergy, knights the noble class, and rooks the army. The queen is the most influential member of the court and pawns are everyone else. The struggle is over influence, and each side seeks to remove the influental member of the opposing side from the court. While a strategy game, it does not represent military battle, but internal politics, which is a struggle that never ceases. Chess would have been a fine tool to train young princes on the concepts of court politics.

Meph. Too strange.

Its not actually a gun at all. Its a circa 1919 colonoscope. There's a reason grandpa didn't like doctors.

It's a self emasculation chair with the claw removed.

Obama is a lefty.

This is a ches' pont nimbler used in pastry and cake decorating. Oddly enough its use was banned in the Duchy of Moldavia because of a dream the Baroness had and related to her 2nd hairdresser, who fortold the Dukes demise at the hands of a Pastrey Cheof' armed with this instrument.

Oddly enough he was run over by a tank during military exercises, the corparal-chef who was in comand of the tank was named:....Chespont.

This is a Jersey Kaufmann splitter. In the late 30's the Banana split became all the rage and the speed and dexterity of the soda jerk who built the split made the soda fountain's fame. Wendel Kaufmann of Kaufmann drugs, nephew of the owner, invented this specialized knife for splitting bananas in record time. Wendel could make a split in 22 seconds! Soon every soda fountain in the US eastern seaboard had to have a splitter, and Wendel grew prosperous, but lost it all in foreign investments because of WW2. Wendel died penniless and alone in 1962.