It's once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what the pictured item is? Can you make up something interesting?
Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many guesses as you'd like in separate comments. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will win T-shirt from the NeatoShop.
Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?
For more clues, check out the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!
Update: the mystery item is is a check protector, it's a security device that marks the check when it's paid so it can't be cashed a second time and also prevents attempts at altering numbers. The first commenter who knew that was cbellamy, who did not select a prize t-shirt. The funniest answer came from Elim, who guessed it to be an antique squid ink extractor. Doesn't that draw a picture? For that, he wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! Thanks to the What Is It? Blog, where you'll find this and several other mystery items this week, all now revealed.
T shirt L
Craig Clayton
T shirt man's large.
Asif
ladies M or unisex S.
ladies M or unisex S.
Battle damage, small
XL Santa
Discombobulate 2XL black
Brainer than the average bear XXL natural
Look Out Schroedinger's Cat, It's a Trap! Women's M Chocolate
Brainier than the Average Bear, XXL
Narcoleptic bee 2XL
MMM...Pi, Ladies L, Serene Green
I heart 8-bit Video Games 2XL Black
MMM....Pi, Ladies L, Serene Green
Greater of two weevils shirt, ladies M
Narcoleptic bee 2XL
Greater of two weevils shirt, ladies Sm
T shirt Large
This is what wives used to threaten their husbands with if they cheated. The product was originally called the manwich (sloppy joe).
Something Somewhere Went Terribly Wrong
Mens Large
Battle Damage, in Brown, fat guy size 3X
Be the berries as you doll up anything and everything, and how, from dresses to garters to shoes. Make your glad rags gladder! Make your chassis copacetic! Be as it as Clara Bow! You'll never be a flat tire with Ronco's Stud Setter. It's the cat's pajamas! Every keen dame has to have one, only $2.95 at Sears and Ro.
I really wish we could post audio here, because this needs a kick-ass Judy Garland impression and I happen to do a kick-ass Judy Garland impression.
Love is a Biohazard, Ash Grey, L
Quasars are far out. Large.
MMM....Pi, Ladies L, Serene Green
Discombobulate 2xl black
The spiked metal would probably have been used as a torture device in which limbs, fingers, and other extremities would have be placed and crushed, causing excessive bleeding, and broken bone fragments that would pierce the skin.
This device was painful, and so it lasted through the ages, being used again in the Salem witch trials in 1692-1693.
Larger versions were used to crush the body and elongated spikes in different versions pierced the skin and drew blood, as well as causing infection and gangrenous skin and pierced innards
When Worlds Collide (Large) if successful please.
T-Shirt: Mmm... pi
Men's Medium (Black)
Don't Make Me Send Out The Flying Monkeys T 2XL
Women size medium
Heart Deco S
http://brookfield.patch.com/articles/the-urban-archeologist-guess-the-gadget
#3 is the closest, though not necessarily a lawyers embosser. This would have been used for voiding checks - the teeth made a permanent mark that was easily noticed when sorting checks by hand. Raised bumps = canceled, cashed check. No Bumps = uh oh! Could be cashed again. 19th century.
I have a more detailed answer but give it to asif #3
This is not the life I ordered (Red) Men's small
Save The Ales Medium
pink freud men lg
Quasars are far out! Size XL