OneGuyFromBarlick

No takers?

I suspect many are keeping quiet. I think I know.

For buttoning boots?

Sorry Maz but no. Think more of belts!

Something to do with drive belts in mills?

Do we give it to him China?

I'm thinking the wrong thing. I thought it was for applying metal rivet/buttons to reinforce denim jeans on the pocket corners etc. Is this what you would use on the sectional drive belt on Johnny's lathe?

Sorry no China. I think Tiz is close enough. They are part of a system for fastening leather belt joints.



Here's one of the buttons with a screwed shank that the other objects tighten up. There are different sizes but this is the only one I have.



Here's another one. Can anyone tell me what this is. Clue, it is made of very dense wood and was used with another object.

Is it to do with filling some sort of fire-arm with gunpowder?

Made of ebony, a dense black hardwood, denser than water?

Handy for teachers. Looks like just the thing to poke sleepy kids in the ribs...whilst being carried discreetly...

Sorry Cath and Maz but no....
Yes Tiz, very heavy for it's size but then it had to be to do its job.

Any takers? If not I'll come clean tomorrow. Think veterinary matters.......

Something to help with glassmaking?

No Maz. Think old fashioned treatment of animals......

Is it something to do with the hole in the nose of a bull, which the ring goes through?

No Gloria, but you are in the right area of treatment. Used to be very common for horses..... (nothing to do with castration!)

This is a wild guess.
Is it anything to do with popping medicine balls down the throats of horses??

"Medicine Balls" I remember those big heavy things on School Sports Days!

Is it to do with Dentistry and horses or counting the 'hands' of how high a horse is?

Nobody has got it and I think we have maybe gone on long enough. It was given to me by an old vet and he said it was a 'blood stick'. It got this name because it was used to give a smart blow to a fleam placed on a vein to cut and bleed a horse. It gave a cleaner and smaller incision.
See THIS Wikipedia article that explains the procedure and also mentions use of the stick but they call it a 'fleam stick'.
Next one?

What is this in?

An old Morris vehicle?

Sorry no Tizer.

Old, high quality four cylinder side valve about 1910.... I was tempted to say Rolls but it doesn't look like Rolls engineering. Something Like a Lanchester?