We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:39:12 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 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.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:40:39 -0600 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. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61208 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61208 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:16:43 -0600 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!!) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61203 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61203 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:35:10 -0600 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 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61201 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61201 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:12:01 -0600 Ummm, Victorian suppository? Still had a lot to work on I suppose. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61200 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61200 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:09:57 -0600 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! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61198 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61198 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:04:52 -0600 I'm going to back Richard and say a Ship's Screw. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61197 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61197 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:07:10 -0600 PROPS I TELL YA!! CURRRVEY PROPS X4.... TOWED IT BE TO TELL THE SPEED AND DISTANCE GONE YORE. Ship's log? ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61195 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61195 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:12:17 -0600 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. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61193 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61193 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:20:11 -0600 Thank you Jim - I was beginning to despair of you guys. MajMike must be at AT or something. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61190 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61190 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:46:26 -0600 Dammit, let's get earnest, here! Neurotypicals! [spits, cusses.] Not that I think it's all that important to *be* earnest. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61186 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61186 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:50:51 -0600 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? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61176 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61176 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:06:00 -0600 A sensitive bit off a brass monkey. Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61169 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61169 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:21:45 -0600 Gauge for a fuze-setting machine. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61144 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61144 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:50:18 -0600 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... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61143 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61143 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:14:20 -0600 "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... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61140 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61140 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:42:13 -0600 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? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61137 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61137 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:33:32 -0600 Rivrdog - what part of *not Victorian* confused you? 8^ D http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61135 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61135 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:45:10 -0600 Brass? Dang, I thought it was a lava lamp. A really old lava lamp. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61134 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61134 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:33:40 -0600 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. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61133 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61133 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:26:09 -0600 Is not! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61132 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61132 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:02:40 -0600 "here" is nowhere, John. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61131 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/a_new_whatzis_1.html#comment-61131 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:57:06 -0600