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Rob

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1198: Seed planter. Don't know for which specific crop. 1200: Bed warmer. 1202: Tent stake?
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else24

1199 Spring loaded fish grabber.
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SteveB
1200 is a kindling aid, if you will for a fireplace.

The stone was kept in a sheetmetal pitcher about 6" tall with a notch for the twisted wire handle to protrude. (Think tankard) The stone absorbed the kerosene when soaked overnight. It was the placed on a brick located under the lograck, and then lit to kindle the firewood. I recall it burning for 20-30 minutes.

Sure facinated us kids when granpa started a fire in the cottage fireplace.

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dustinpockets

Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as always.

1197) Looks to me like some form of bottle/jar opener.

You slid the moving jaw down into contact with the edges of the lid, and then move the pivoted object at the other end to cam the toothed ratchet bar down, clamping the lid between the movable jaw and the fixed jaw, and allowing you to apply leverage out at the end of the device.

1198) Either for distributing seed into a row or perhaps chalk/lime powder to mark lines on a tennis court or some other sports playing field.

The lever turns on or off the flow of the contents of the hopper.

1199) Hmm ... interesting. It appears to be calibrated, which suggests that it either measures the size of what it caught between the jaws, or serves to weigh the object. It the latter case, it *might* be for weighing a fish just caught to determine whether it could be kept or must be released? 1200) Hmm ... to sling around the head (on the end of a line) and then release, perhaps for sounding depth over water (though a lead weight is more common.)

Are there really two loops at right angles at the top, or is that a shadow showing up as a photographic artifact? I think the former.

1201) A set of non-sparking wrenches apparently designed to hang from a belt loop. They seem to be brass, though I guess that they could be bronze.

They appear to be separated by spinning off a winged nut. And it is interesting that the smaller ones get two sizes to one end of the wrench handle.

1202) This looks like a spike to serve as an anchor point at the end or corner of a fence. The wire forms a loop around one of the enclosed pins before passing over the side horns of the top, while the raised striking area avoids damaging (and weakening) the wire as you drive the spike into the ground.

Now to see what others have guessed.

Enjoy, DoN.

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DoN. Nichols

1201 Bicycle wrenches?

1202 Tent peg.

Steve R.

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Steve R.

Five of the six have been answered correctly though I'm not 100% sure about number 1200, the one with the stone; the answer page can be seen here:

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Rob

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R.H.

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