Similar to the emperor's new clothes, each generation has at least one fad where people follow it without knowing why. This is that fad for 1843. Rich people would order a wooden wall hanging & if anyone dared to ask what it was, they were ridiculed for their lack of knowledge.

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Back in the day, fan etiquette existed. Ladies could signal men using their fans. In order for them to do so, their fans needed to be fully functional, so the fan testing device came into being to make sure fans could fully open & close as needed.

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In Costa Rica, the escalators are ramps with grooves for shopping cart wheels (& the wheels have grooves to match). You push the cart onto the ramp & it locks in place until you reach the top.

It is a guitar string tautness tester. Someone has to make sure that your new guitar strings won't snap as you tighten them.
http://www.neatoshop.com/product/The-Witch-of-Arendelle, M, Black

It's a violin for the Great Depression Band. In order to employ more people, FDR wrote in the New Deal that each instrument could only play a maximum of two different notes, so more people could be employed to make a full band. This band slowly died out since it was deathly boring to only get to play 2 notes during songs.
http://www.neatoshop.com/product/The-Witch-of-Arendelle, M, Black

This is a pooper-scooper designed to spear & scoop up the turds, but let more sand & earth fall back to the ground.
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This is the manual roto-tiller for hipsters who think using a gas-guzzling machine to make their organic gardens is too mainstream.
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This is a scale model of the non-mechanized backhoe model of the 1930s, designed to give more people jobs as they did manual labor during the Great Depression.
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This is an Ancient Egyptian brain removal stick for bodies that are a little to far along in the decomposition process. There's no need to lose your lunch when you can stand further away. The bulge in the middle is to extend distance of the brain removal stick.

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I heart math, black, XL

This is the reason why the town tailor should not insult the town blacksmith. Suddenly your scissors are less effective.
I Heart Math (Large. Black.)

This is an ancient carpenter's guild training tool used to teach apprentices how to swing a hammer & hit a nail without hitting their thumb. As they improved, the handle & nail shrank until they were using just a nail without a handle.
I Heart Math (Large. Black.)