I was at my local coin shop last week when this came up. The seller wanted more precision so with his permission the shop crushed a handle with...
When our antique electric kitchen mixer group was active online we kept a running thread about period mixers seen in movies. There were quite a...
With the wide top and non threaded cap I wonder if it was sold as a Dewar?
The blade is a lathe cut-off tool blade. https://www.sommatool.com/catalog/cutting.tools/ttype_cutoff_blades.asp
I found Coclico mentioned in an 1857 Cincinnati newspaper. It would suggest this was a trade name.[ATTACH]
Mellophones are straight for use in marching bands. Sure looks like a French horn.
As already mentioned it is a bar of bearing metal. It's not bullion, that is the way the metal was sold. Just search for "babbitt bar" and you...
We used to make our own with a candle stuck inside a coffee can and a funnel that fit there also. The spout passed through a hole in the bottom of...
[ATTACH] Taken at my house back in the 1950s. I managed to contact this young lady a few years ago and she had many vintage photos of my house...
BMWs from the 1970s used the same gearbox and handle at the top. The square peg slides into a socket at the rocker panel, two on each side.
My wife is Thai. The lettering with the dates is the artist's name but I can't do justice to converting her words into English. Starts with "Waht"...
The wife says it is not Thai.
It does have my great great grandfather's signature so that kinda establishes the connection to Rev McDonald.
"The Theological Works of the Reverend Mr Charles Leslie." I only have the first volume, 800 pages of ranting about all the other religions....
It's a chicken plucker. Googling will show lots of them.
We used similar clamps in chem lab to hold beakers or test tubes over a Bunsen burner.
I Think this is a "trade axe". here is more then you ever wanted to know about them:...
Neat key but it is not a skeleton key. Just a key for a warded lock. The skeleton key to pick this lock would not have the varying depth slots.
You can look at McMaster-Carr for solid rivets But you will have to learn how to rivet. It will be easiest with copper or aluminum rivets....
Phillips made screwdrivers for Mercedes Benz and Porsche marked "Made in West Germany" and Chrome Vanadium" in this same transparent yellow. The...
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