MYSTERY OBJECTS
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Quite right, I meant this year! It's my age you know........
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Try this one.....
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Made by Johnny?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Starting handle for Noddy's car?
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Window opener?
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Sorry, no to all. Not made by Johnny, standard office equipment in its day.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Part of a pencil sharpener?
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You've got a good memory China. Here's another clue.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I think you'd better enlighten the masses China!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I still think it's for opening cans of tuna! Perhaps during the accountants' lunch hour.
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It's a winding handle that you insert in ledger splines to open them for insertion or removal of loose pages, typically used for company book-keeping and minutes. It's 55 years since I used one at W & B.
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Exactly right China. The one I have is unused and is a ledger. God knows what they would cost today! Next one?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Try this one. It's a shuttle of course but what's special about it?
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No takers?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
It looks smaller than normal
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Would I get a gold medal if I got this thread correct?
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P has got it. No. it's a fairly common shuttle but specialised.
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Very clever, Plaques! Thanks for the double clue! Although if I were to be pedantic I'd point out that the `gold' thread was never really gold, just a coating on a cheaper metal. Assuming that object's done, how about this? Where and what is it?
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You've got there! It's a shuttle for carrying a bobbin of gold thread for weaving into goods for the Indian market. Are you sure in your assertion Tiz that it was base metal? That isn't my information and remember it had to stand up to repeated washing.
The room. It looks communal, educational, has feeding arrangements and whispers Icelandic or far North of Scandinavia to me. One thing certain, no indigenous trees, everything seems to be made of plywood or possibly driftwood. Icelandic Clarion House?
The room. It looks communal, educational, has feeding arrangements and whispers Icelandic or far North of Scandinavia to me. One thing certain, no indigenous trees, everything seems to be made of plywood or possibly driftwood. Icelandic Clarion House?
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Gold thread...have a look at this article from the V&A Museum conservators: LINK
You are getting warm with your mention of high latitudes and lack of trees! But it's not a Clarion House (as far as I know!).
You are getting warm with your mention of high latitudes and lack of trees! But it's not a Clarion House (as far as I know!).
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Simpson's Gold Thread Works in Preston manufactured gold thread up until 1990. Our history society were given a very interesting talk about it a few years ago. It was made a fine wire of silver and copper encased in gold leaf.