Featured Polar Helios Promo Item?

Approx 15 cm.
I only managed to find one identical item, that didn't have the/a brand name on it, and a few normal size tools shaped like this.
Promo item? Salesman sample?

 

wonder if it could be a terrarium tool mate. looks like a lot of the newer ones are telescopic for easier access, but seems there are older types that are not

 

I think it's a minature version of this 11" tool
https://www.tooltique.co.uk/shop/unusual-11-vintage-mid-century-gardenering-hand-rake-and-spade/
"Unusual 11” vintage Mid Century gardener’s combination hand rake and spade in good used condition. It’s an interesting tool that obviously didn’t catch on due to their rarity."

 

Did you happen to see this page->

From the German Horticultural Library and has the following entries:

Polar-Helios
Polar-Werke A.-G. Department of Garden Equipment Factory. Remscheid
Polar Helios Steel Garden Equipment. Catalogue Edition D 36. [1936]. - 68 pages, illustrations.

Polar Helios. Polar-Werke. Engels & Sieper K.-G. Dept. Garden Tool Factory. Steel garden tools with the silver ring. Remscheid
Catalogue Edition D 38/39. [1938/39]. - 64 pages

Garden Calendar: Work Tips for Gardeners and Settlers.
Approx. 1940. – 16 pages, illustrations.
Polar-Helios-Schrift No. 136. Monthly work calendar, month names in German and Germanic, tools with prices in RM.

ca. 1942. – 16 pp., ill.
Polar-Helios-Schrift No. 138.

Approx. 1950. 16 pp., ill.
Polar-Helios-Schrift No. 150

Approx. 1953. 16 pp., ill.

Polar Helios Font No. 153

Garden Calendar.
1965. – 16 pp., ill.

Polar Helios. Polar-Werke. Engels & Sieper.
Field and garden tools with the silver ring. Remscheid-Hasten.
Price list 56 and Cat. A 54/55. 1955. - 52 pp., ill., 1 sheet (Special price list for Polar-Helios garden hoes, all-forged)

 

well if that size is rare

does it seem functionable in hand, as some terrariums are tiny

 

The answer may well lie within here:



Debora

 

A "fallen fruit rake" according to this:

https://www.amazon.com/Fallen-Fruits-GT174-RAKE-Silver/dp/B07XL43RTN

Debora

 

now that is what you call tantalizing

 

Thanks! I wasn't able to find much with Google. It was mostly showing pics of shorts and bras, and the Polar store on Amazon, with the info:
Foundation of the Polar brand
Remscheid in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia has always been known for highly specialised steel deformation, mechanical engineering as well as the development and production of tools.

Since 1790, the two companies Eduard Engels and David Sieper and Söhne have been producing ice skates according to the Dutch model made of wood with a steel rail, which were attached to winter shoes with leather straps.

In 1924, the companies joined together and founded the Polar plants Engels & Sieper in Remscheid. They quickly became the market leader for high-quality ice skates, roller skates and garden tools under the brand name Polar-Helios.

 

In this case for fruit from a a bonsai tree

 

yes, it does ... if your hands aren't too big I have small hands, so I could indeed use it.

 

It isn't featured in the 1959 calendar
https://www.hifi-archiv.info/sonstige-Kataloge/Haushalt/Polar Helios Garten-Kalender 1959.pdf

 

It looks handy for constructing a sand castle on the beach.

 

Or for a mini zen garden

 

I finally managed to find the Polar website. I'm going to send them an e-mail

 

It's a little beauty Marote. Just be very careful when harvesting fallen fruits-mind stinging insects.

 

I received a reply from the managing director of Polar

It is ...

A flower pot and cactus tool, that was manufactured in the 70s and 80s.

An older version of (2/3 of) these current tools
https://www.polar-garten.de/polar-g...655-blumenbesteck-3-teilig-inkl-stiel/a-79338

 

Yes, of course, that's what I thought it was all along.

Doesn't everyone groom their flower pots?

 

Grooming your flower pots for your own pleasure might be considered a criminal offence ...

 

You win the Antiquers' Least Expected Answer of the Year award!
Bruh