This is the early inspiration for those paper fastener brads (the kind that you push through the paper and then split the ends). This was made to hold large pieces of leather to the ground to curing, but when the end of one split open, the maker decided to make them small to hold paper instead.

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I whole-heartedly love several of these. My wife and I are in Costa Rica, learning Spanish, and sometimes, you have to resort to things like these to make it. Also, point of fact: In Spanish, foot fingers is the exactly right way of saying toes.

It's a megaphone for fire-breathing dragons!

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One half of the most effective set of handcuffs ever. The matching piece was chained to another prisoner and neither of them ever wanted to try to escape. It's not that is was impossible, but it just hurt so much that they would rather stay in jail.

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It's a miniature sculpture in the Retro Gallery of Modern Art, called "And One for All: A Tribute to the Musketeers."

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It is where my dad used to store his marbles that he had won from his friends. He had two collections: one that he used to play marbles, and this "marble jail" with a lid shown in the picture. Instead of a summer job, he used this apparatus as a money maker, as he would ransom his classmates' marbles back to them for exorbitant amounts of money.

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It's the cap for a jar of self-puncturing pickles. Every time you put the lid back on the jar, the next pickle is instantly impaled, ready for your next fine dinner party.

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It's William Tell's practice Apple-Holder. He would place the apple upon these spikes, then place this apparatus upon the head of his son. This gave him "just" enough extra space to be able to feel comfortable with his bow and arrow. It was said that he just imagined that his son's head was one of these when he made his famous apple-shot-off-the-head act.

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It is the tin man's crown. The Tinman of Oz became King, years after the story of the Wizard of Oz. With all of his heart, he led the kingdom with great compassion and mercy. However, the shape of his head caused most crowns to fall off, so blacksmiths constructed this crown, which could be bolted onto his head. As the tinman was a construct instead of a person, it didn't hurt him a bit!

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It is a decoy bear trap. While this object didn't actually have the ability to trap bears, this would be placed around a farmstead after a number of bear traps had already been triggered. Upon seeing this, bears who had learned to avoid bear traps would also avoid these, keeping a homestead safe.

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It's a reverse horseshoe. This was mountain backwards onto a horse's foot. When the horse walked, it would leave tracks in reverse, to make it appear as though the horse had just left a location instead of having just arrived.

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It's a mountain goat kit!

During pioneer days, not everyone could afford real mountain goats to pull their plows across the sides of mountains. In order to rectify the situation, farmers could buy a set of these puppies and modify their horses or other farm animals into ready-made mountain goats.

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It's a single military cleat for warhorses. The horse would place his already-shod foot on top of this item and it would be secured over his hoof. This would cause extra damage on the battlefield and allow the horse to maintain speed while running through lines of soldiers.

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It is a movable pole-vaulting point. With a good hammer, within 10 seconds, this could be mounted wherever you like, allowing anyone to bound over large objects with ease.

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