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1092 degausser
1093 for making the inner hole into döner kebab meat. umh, only joking. second try ... tool for making holes into tough materials, like leather? for shoemakers, upholsterers?
1091 Money. (I think I've seen a reference to this, but count this answer as a guess.)
1092 Current Transformer Used to measure AC current. Wire with the current to be measured goes through the hole. AC ammeter connects to the terminals. Contains a torroidal core with a multi-turn winding connected to the terminals. Used to keep the ammeter at ground or safe voltage, to avoid the need of breaking any insulation on the wire, and to get a much smaller current into the ammeter than is flowing in the wire. This one seems to be marked as a 50:1 ratio (steps the current down 50:1, would step the voltage up 50:1, but the ammeter, being low impedance, introduces low back resistance into the line.
It might work as a degausser, but that is not what it was made for.
1091 Cash. Chinese "knife shaped" bronze ingot, used as an early form of coinage. Almost certainly modern repro.
1092 Current transformer. Stick a power feed of many Amperes through the central hole and measure a smaller current (maybe 1/100th or
1/50th) from the two terminals on the top. It'll be marked with a measuring ratio somewhere and a usable frequency range (which I think I can see)
1093 Patent paper fastener. Lots of these around in that period, before wire staples came to dominate.
1094 Clip-on hook. A wire is twisted through the four lugs on the RHS of the 1st picture to hold it in place, then the LHS hangs down to make a double hook.
1095 Toy. There's a weight and a ratchet or clutch in the middle, so that you roll it away and then it comes back to you.
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It is visibly marked with the ratio, too.
Nah.... it's a rolling knife sharpener. That one's a bit big for the average countertop or cutting board -- you'd have to roll it longways. Modern ones are smaller.
I wonder if 1094 was for making T splices in hogwire, barbed wire, telegraph lines, or electrical lines. The end on the right would go around the main wire and one of the ears would catch the end of the wire to be wrapped around it. It looks as if it could wrap only clockwise, so maybe two ears were used to provide a better handle for prying with the left end of the tool.
I wonder if the left end was a staple puller. If I knew more about staples I might guess what kind of staple the tool would be strong enough to pull.
1091 is a strigil. It was used to scrape oil or sweat from the body, along with any dirt and dead skin following a bath, exercize or participation in a sporting event.
1095 appears to be a knife-sharpener, probably sold to housewives to use in the kitchen.
1092: Choke
1093: Device for cancelling checks
1094: hooks onto a wire or cord to pull it in some way, might act as a stand off...
1095: knife sharpener
1096: Doll Bed heater, fill with coals from fireplace or stove and slip it between the sheets.
I can't believe that you would doubt the veracity of a vendor at my local flea market, he wouldn't have been asking $35 for it if it wasn't authentic. ;->
I think you're right that it's basically a hook, but for what specific purpose I haven't been able to find out.
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1091: Pot handle
1092: Transfomer
1093: Leather punch, perhaps for putting a hole for an eyelet into a boot
1094: World's smallest pickaxe
1095: Lousy grindstone
1096: Device for removing coals from a fire
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