Hooray! Here is this week's collaboration with What it it? blog: can you guess what this gruesome claw-like object is for?
Place your guess in the comment section. Please post no URL, let others play ... No prize this week, so you're playing for fun and bragging rights only.
For more clues, see: What is it? Blog. Good luck!
Update 3/14/08 0 - the answer is:A coal lifting device, used when adding coal to a fire, it protects the hand from flames and also from contact with the coal, patented in 1896, number 567,087.
Its used for scooping up leaves and other ground debris.
Wear them like a glove and scoop up the trash.
It's a device to pick up bails of cotton
I say : ice shoe
You clamp it onto your head and you'll immediately look stunning.
Or tiny tiny steampunk bear gloves for a tiny tiny bear.
Or Pre-cambrian salad tongs.
Thank you, that is all.
(made from real bear claws)
Dinosaur dentures! I saw them in a museum once.