MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

You've got it Gloria!
Next one anyone?

[chinatyke]

Here is the story of the Craven heifer, courtesy of Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craven_Heifer

[Stanley]

[Tizer]

For removing a car's oil filter?

[Stanley]

I can see why you guessed that Tiz. Sorry, much older than that. Clue, it's made of bronze.

[chinatyke]

It has a nautical link if I remember correctly. And that is a clue!

[Stanley]

Good memory China, you're on it. Let's see how the others are at memory tests!

[plaques]

It was the pull chain on Titanic's ships bell that was recovered as a keepsake just before it went Glug, glug, off the Scottish coast.

[Tizer]

Off the Scottish coast? That must be a different Titanic to the one I know about!

[plaques]

Off the Scottish coast?

I was using the same kind of terminology you get in sales adverts-- Up to 50% off. which is anything as little as 1% to a max of 50%. My 'off' can mean anything up to 2000 miles. I may have been wrong with the name it could have been the Olympic, but that's another conspiracy theory. Olympic.

[Stanley]

You're ever so close P! If nobody gets it I'll do the reveal tomorrow....

[Stanley]

It's a piece of bronze chain that ran inside a pipe from the bridge to the engine room and connected the 'telegraph' for issuing orders for engine speed on the bridge to the repeater in the engine room. It came off a Liberty Ship that sank off the Isle of Skye during the war.
Next one?

[chinatyke]

This object is made for a special and very useful purpose. What is its purpose?

[Stanley]

That looks like a sucker on the bottom so is it for attaching to a smooth surface like glass or a fridge door? It looks as though it's meant to attract attention to something but that's as far as I have got China.....

[Wendyf]

No idea what it is but I like it!

[Bodger]

Homing decoy transmitter for bee hives

[Gloria]

A bottle stopper??

[plaques]

Strategically placed on the base of a bath it stops you sliding about.

[chinatyke]

That looks like a sucker on the bottom so is it for attaching to a smooth surface like glass or a fridge door? It looks as though it's meant to attract attention to something but that's as far as I have got China.....

Yes, that's a sucker on the base but not for a fridge door. You wouldn't have needed one of these 10 years ago.

[Tizer]

A mini Bluetooth speaker?

[chinatyke]

No, sorry, Tiz.

[Stanley]

Now you have me puzzling as to what happened inside the last ten years!

[plaques]

You stick it on your smart phone and when it vibrates it giggles about and lights up. If this is wrong it will be right next week.

[chinatyke]

Near enough P. Well done. It is just a support for hands free operation of a smart phone when video calling.

[plaques]

Well I never! I would never have thought of that in a month of sundays. I haven't got a smart phone and nobody wants to talk to me anyhow.