Comments for A new whatzis!

A new whatzis!

2007-06-14T11:40:39Z

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.

Comment from Old Fat Sailor on 2007-06-15

2007-06-15T09:16:43Z

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.

Comment from Richard on 2007-06-14

2007-06-15T04:35:10Z

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!!)

Comment from Richard on 2007-06-14

2007-06-15T04:12:01Z

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

Comment from Rod Thorsen on 2007-06-14

2007-06-15T04:09:57Z

Ummm, Victorian suppository? Still had a lot to work on I suppose.

Comment from Justthisguy on 2007-06-14

2007-06-15T03:04:52Z

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!

Comment from BloodSpite on 2007-06-14

2007-06-15T02:07:10Z

I'm going to back Richard and say a Ship's Screw.

Comment from Richard on 2007-06-14

2007-06-15T00:12:17Z

PROPS I TELL YA!! CURRRVEY PROPS X4.... TOWED IT BE TO TELL THE SPEED AND DISTANCE GONE YORE. Ship's log?

Comment from Justthisguy on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T23:20:11Z

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.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T22:46:26Z

Thank you Jim - I was beginning to despair of you guys. MajMike must be at AT or something.

Comment from Justthisguy on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T20:50:51Z

Dammit, let's get earnest, here! Neurotypicals! [spits, cusses.] Not that I think it's all that important to *be* earnest.

Comment from jim b on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T19:06:00Z

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?

Comment from J.M. Heinrichs on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T18:21:45Z

A sensitive bit off a brass monkey. Cheers

Comment from Justthisguy on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T14:50:18Z

Gauge for a fuze-setting machine.

Comment from BillT on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T14:14:20Z

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...

Comment from Pogue on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T13:42:13Z

"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...

Comment from jim b on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T13:33:32Z

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?

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T12:45:10Z

Rivrdog - what part of *not Victorian* confused you? 8^ D

Comment from hdw on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T12:33:40Z

Brass? Dang, I thought it was a lava lamp. A really old lava lamp.

Comment from Rivrdog on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T12:26:09Z

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.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T12:02:40Z

Is not!

Comment from SezaGeoff on 2007-06-14

2007-06-14T11:57:06Z

"here" is nowhere, John.