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A new whatzis!

By The Armorer on June 14, 2007 | | Comments (21)

Okay boys and girls - what's this?

I'll give you a hint - it's *not* Victorian, despite all that shiny brass.

For you guys always whining about scale, and context and stuff - here.

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By SezaGeoff on June 14, 2007 6:57 AM
"here" is nowhere, John.
   
By Rivrdog on June 14, 2007 7:26 AM
A ferrule and bedknob for a Victorian 4-poster bed. The holes in the ferrule are for attaching, well, whatever restraint devices the mind of a twisted Victorian could come up with.
 
By hdw on June 14, 2007 7:33 AM
Brass? Dang, I thought it was a lava lamp. A really old lava lamp.
 
By John of Argghhh! on June 14, 2007 7:45 AM
Rivrdog - what part of *not Victorian* confused you? 8^ D
 
By jim b on June 14, 2007 8:33 AM
Okay, I gotta say it. The thing that worries me about all this stuff is that you actually know what it is. Of course if you made it up? Few would know. We won't even get into the where the hedoublehockeysticks did you find it?
 
By Pogue on June 14, 2007 8:42 AM
"Okay, I gotta say it. The thing that worries me about all this stuff is that you actually know what it is." H3ll, not only knows what it is, but owns at least one of the whatzit in question...
 
By BillT on June 14, 2007 9:14 AM
I don't get out in the sun much, but whoever's holding the thing in the context pic makes even *me* look Third World...
 
By Justthisguy on June 14, 2007 9:50 AM
Gauge for a fuze-setting machine.
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on June 14, 2007 1:21 PM
A sensitive bit off a brass monkey. Cheers
 
By jim b on June 14, 2007 2:06 PM
Well according to Google, that piece was owned by the Grand Poobah of a jungle country who's pride and joy was a large male elephant. The elephant was the Poobah's pride and joy and he loved to ride on it. However late in life the elephant was plagued with constipation... which distressed both the elephant and the Poobah greatly. So the Poobah had his finest craftsmen turn to on a project to make a royal enema devise. That device in the photo is the tip of the elephant enema thingie. A firehose like device attached to the non brass end of it and it was .... oh how should I say it .... introduced into the elephant by the Poobah's Royal Fire Department ... who then proceeded to give the pachyderm a royal hosing. The elephant died. It took the Royal Embalmers 2 weeks to get the smile off his face. You did wash your hands after handling that thing didn't you John? ... John?
 
By Justthisguy on June 14, 2007 3:50 PM
Dammit, let's get earnest, here! Neurotypicals! [spits, cusses.] Not that I think it's all that important to *be* earnest.
 
By John of Argghhh! on June 14, 2007 5:46 PM
Thank you Jim - I was beginning to despair of you guys. MajMike must be at AT or something.
 
By Justthisguy on June 14, 2007 6:20 PM
Awright, to get serious, (you people not understanding the importance of being earnest) the cylindrical part is I betcha made of steel, the ogive-shaped-exactly-like-the-front-end-of-a-projectile part is obviously brass and polished to a fare-thee-well by SWWBO. Which latter makes it harder to get a perfect idea of its shape. Now I guess that it's a chamber-throat shape gauge for some piece.
 
By Richard on June 14, 2007 7:12 PM
PROPS I TELL YA!! CURRRVEY PROPS X4.... TOWED IT BE TO TELL THE SPEED AND DISTANCE GONE YORE. Ship's log?
 
By BloodSpite on June 14, 2007 9:07 PM
I'm going to back Richard and say a Ship's Screw.
 
By Justthisguy on June 14, 2007 10:04 PM
JoA! Help, please! The Normal Humans are talking funny. Those holes obviously mean something, maybe they're intended to fit with some kind of Tommy Bar, as the Brits call it. No, really, I am disappointed with you people. Y'all are getting all silly and giving up on even trying to solve the problem presented here!
 
By Rod Thorsen on June 14, 2007 11:09 PM
Ummm, Victorian suppository? Still had a lot to work on I suppose.
 
By Richard on June 14, 2007 11:12 PM
Now hang on Jus, I know I'm want to go off the reservation most times due to my lack of depth in arty artifacation, still, some pitting on the steel shaft (salt water?), holes that could accom. 4 prop blades with the smaller holes for a-fixin the cable, and if that would be a zinc ring between the steel and brass sections, well then, a proper ship's log which on tall ships, was towed behind the vessel, the props turning a cable which turned some gears in a box on board which gave a measure of the ship's speed and distance traveled. I stand to my guess
 
By Richard on June 14, 2007 11:35 PM
Well...........I'll just sit down...."Oh, over here?" yes........thank-you. A device used to hand turn shell casings in the field(PPPllleasse John don't ask me the mm!!)
 
By Old Fat Sailor on June 15, 2007 4:16 AM
Obscure shiney brass thingie for seamen recruits to polish while being told the same sea story ("This is no shi...)again and again by the Deck Force leading seaman.