What Is It? Game 96 - Neatorama

Yay! It's time for our collaboration with the always awesome What is it? Blog. Can you guess what this strange object is for?

Place your guess in the comment section. Please post no URL or web links - let others play. No prize this week - you're playing for fame and glory only.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

Update 4/24/09 - the answer is: whale oil lamp. Seems like this is a stumper!

I'm not sure what it is, but someone could probably figure out how to smoke pot out of it.

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It's a French Grenade Launcher attachment from around in the 1700s. The problem with them is that they had a bad habit of exploding and blowing your arm off.

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A Roman-era gearshifthandle for horses.

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I am so impressed with this game.
I have never been able to guess what any of these objects are.
I am 41, have been to 35 countries, have had tons of jobs and am very curious about the world. I love to make stuff, take things apart, figure things out...
How do you so consistently baffle me?
:)

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It's obviously the first Doctor's sonic screwdriver.

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i'm going with a pepper grind, i don't know why, but thats what i'm gonna say. and i know i'm so wrong with that.

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@ Craig

Dammit man, I was just about to say that.

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Is it perhaps a detonator for something? That looks like a button on the end. Or a gameshow buzzer?!

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It looks like an antique front end suspension part or shock absorber for some type of vehicle. ( maybe a horse drawn fire truck )

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Coffee mill.

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Its hold gun powder for muzzle loading gunds. you put the powder in the big und and the small end goes into the tip of the barrel. Not for sure but it might even put a measured amount in to the barrel.

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Looks to be some sort of whistle? Or could be a brass powder horn (for gun powder).

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I think it's a toilet flush lever.

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@P. Lobster I think you close correct. Looks like a ship's horn or a steamboat whistle. The other side probably has a slit here the air comes out to create the sound.

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Is it a crack pipe?

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Who's got my golden arm?

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i think it may be some kind of telescope or similar - i think you open both ends then look in the top and it shows far away.

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A calliope whistle.

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Looks very much like an organ pipe, or as said before a caliope whistle.

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It's an inkwell. Actually I have no idea what the thing is but I sure do love your blog.

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it's either a penny-whistle or a moon-pie

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Its probably (not) a pipe and/or a whistle of sorts.

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An antique lightsaber. Possibly Yoda's first, when he was a young padawan.

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It's a mobile candle, or lantern with an open flame. the wick is in the capped end and you hold onto the area where the fuel is stored , and it slowly dispenses into the capped are giving it a constant supply. That or for smoking pot... probably both.

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its a small whistle or maybe a powder horn but that isn't very likely

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a steampunk kazoo?

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An old shock absorber.

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I think it's a powder horn for measuring cannon rounds.

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it is a door nob !!

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a bullet reloader

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The first pump ever developed for extracting milk from a woman’s breast?

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a steam whistle.

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It's a wind-up lever for an antique rechargable flashlight.
The lever on mine looked a lot like this, and broke off easily, thus the reason it's by itself.

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Im going with a guess that its a huge whistle.

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That thing for opening doors... I don't know its name in english...

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It's the Apache, a 19th century personal protection gadget.

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Noooo this is not the Apache Cristophe!
This is a Comanche
Or a Kiowa
Or perhaps even an Assiniboin or a Tillamook.
But definitely not an Apache.
:lol: Incredible that you can't see thát...! ;-)

And my guess is that it is used to give measured doses of powdery substance for medical purposes. Like cocain or stuff like that.

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A sprinkler. Used for sprinkling water on clothing to produce steam when ironing clothes.

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This is a pressure indicator. When a certain amount of pounds per square inch is reached, it sounds and releases.

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why of course!! It's a candle snuffer!!

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I didn't say that! Who's logging in as me?

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I believe it's an OLD milk bottle to feed a baby.

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Alex, I'm offended by the phallic nature of this device. Not really - I just have no idea what it is and wanted to chime in...

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it's to put those small rivets in my Levis

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Looks very much like the lower section of a rear shock absorber for either a 1926 or '27 Durant

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gotta be a device to break a glass window, like when a car ends up in water and the windows no longer work.

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Is it a shock absorber from an old motorcycle? Perhaps a Vincent or something.

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It's a manly version of a Kazoo!

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it looks like an old version of shock absorber used to be connected to a tie rod.

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It looks like a train whistle.

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Paperweight. Without a doubt it works as a paperweight.

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Looks like a brake cylinder from a very old car

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Is it..... useless?

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Hmmm, A Gavel perhaps?

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or an arabian royal socket wrench

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Its a milk carton!

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Captain's whistle? (ship)

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Looks vaguely electrical to me. Is it an old-timey medical device to apply current to a part of the body?

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An antique doorbell?

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A Steampunk Wii or what is that thing called where you can move things in a computergame by spastically moving this wireless thingamagic?

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It's a conversation piece. Unless you get frisked, then it's the fifth amendment.

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This is a Rikel Pipper. It is for measureing the depth of pips in die. In 1946 a rash of altered dice were discovered in use in casinos. To stop this a bonded pip-man would randomly measure the depth of pips in dies used in games. I know this because my grandfather had this job, and used to let me have the rejected dice, which I took to school and funded my college education with.

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tie rod end, for a slow car

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A whale oil lamp?

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Why would a whale need an oil lamp?
Do they stay lit better underwater?

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Well... okay, I knew it gets pretty dark deep down under in the deep seas. But I would never in the world have guessed that some whales were so technically advanced...! I mean, if they could invent this, why then didn't they also invent whale-harpoons to shoot back...?

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Foreigner1:
Because they're Pacificists.

I just won Pun of the Year Award with that one.

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Tie Rod End for A 1920 Ford

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