Today's collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this object. Can you guess what it is? (No, it's not an axe!)
Place your guess in the comment section. No prize this week, so you're playing for bragging rights only.
For more clues, including larger pics, check out the What is it? blog. Good luck!
Update 10/31/08 - the answer is:A George Washington Door Stop, by Newton Mfg Co., Newton, Iowa, in use it was stood on its head with the wedge going under the door.
Congratulations to ALC who go it right!
I think I need one of those.
jj
A device that holds a dilithium crystal within a starship's matter/antimatter reaction chamber.