MYSTERY OBJECTS

[PanBiker]

It's an auto inking printing block.

[Stanley]

Very close Ian but there is something quite specific about this stamp.

[Marilyn]

Does it print a consecutive number each time you stamp it?

[Stanley]

Well done Maz, exactly right. Very useful for me at one time but unused now. If anyone has a use for it let me know, they can have it with pleasure. (Come to think I might have two!) Try this one....

[Stanley]

Er, yes? Can't you see it? Clear to me.....

[PanBiker]

First time I visited the topic it just had the word image, hence my quip. Kept tab open read a couple more topics and revisited and the image was there. Deleted my post as you were posting.

Could it be a pill dispenser?

[Gloria]

I replied to this this morning but it has gone???
Anyway is it one of those little metal boxes with flip lids which mints come in???

[Stanley]

Very close Gloria and that's what I would have guessed but you're not quite there yet.

[Marilyn]

Well I was way off. Something about the blue colour was suggesting to me it was some sort of diabetic testing kit, however I could not determine what it would test or how. So ignore that.
Does that yellow bit fold backward? Just wondering about the positive and negative impressions matching if it were flipped back.

[Gloria]

Is it for tictacs? The lid looks as though it flips back over and clips in place in the presstud type mechanism.

[Wendyf]

Looks like plastic rather than metal, and very familiar somehow.
I'm thinking sweeteners...

[Stanley]

You are all so close that it would be cruel to make you go through all the possibilities. It's full of snuff. I've always liked a bit occasionally and when the tobacconists shop on the Town Square had a display cabinet of snuff that she said they would never sell I gave her a fiver for the box and contents. If anyone wants some menthol snuff, let me know! Try this one...

[Marilyn]

A flexible tripod to screw into the bottom of a camera?

[Gloria]

It screws into something, then I presume whizzes round, but I don't know what for. Don't think it's a governer but I suppose it could be when added to other things?????

[hartley353]

Two for camera tripod.

[Stanley]

Too easy! It's a camera tripod for close-ups on the table top. Can't remember where I got it from but I've never used it! Now I'll have to think again, good brain gym exercise for me, it gets difficult when you've done hundreds!

[Tripps]

Give it to Panbiker - he can turn it upside down, add a simple adaptor, and claim the world's first Tripole Antenna.

[PanBiker]

I think it would need a bit more than a simple adaptor Tripps. Could possibly be viable with a loading coil and a 9:1 UnUn into a decent tuner. You can basically make more or less any chunk of metal resonate with a bit of ingenuity. "Slinky" toys are quite popular for portable HF antennas

[Marilyn]

I knew what it was because I got one with a camera too...but it was totally useless...unable to support the weight of the camera and kept sinking and doing the 'splits'!

[Stanley]

Still thinking.......

[Gloria]

Stanley, just go in your shed, close your eyes, turn around three times and point at something, open your eyes and that is it!!!

[Marilyn]

Let's hope he hasn't got a shed full of Long Johns drying out there...

[Stanley]

No way Maz, I only use the shed for drying my Sloggi budgie smugglers.... Must post another object seeing as nobody is helping me out!

[Cathy]

Looks like a tiny bowl or saucer. The centre looks like wood, looks very old too. Is this one of your 'antiques' Stanley??

[Marilyn]

Very large egg cup?