What is it? Set 427

Egg candler is correct, the round part on the cover is made of mica and was probably a lot more clear when it was new.

I think they still sell them.

More specificly for picture framing bradswhich somewhat resemble horse shoe nails ~3/4" long with a flat back and tappered shaft.

IIRC the eggs are hatched in an "incubater" and thebaby chicks are kept warm under the hood of a "brooder" This unit would be the heat/humidity source probably used in conjunction with a thermostaticly controled venting system for the incubator.

A BROWN BOTTLE OPENER!

-Zz

You don't "twist" those tools, you wiggle them back and forth in the same plane as the tines.

-Zz

2478 - still

Well beer bottle obviously; metal cap on glass bottle e.g.

I didn't think it was a corkscrew!

2474: Slave collar?

Lee Valley does:

scott

The leather handle has a picture of a landscape with a moose, I thought it could be for an outdoorsman but maybe it's just a general purpose combination tool. Also the wooden ball is still unidentified but the rest of the answers have been posted and can be seen here:

Rob

The tip of 2475 looks like a fish hook remover. So perhaps it is a fisherman's tool? The notches on the side could be matched to the nuts on a reel. Art

My first thought that it was a bicycle tool, with the end notch for tightening spokes and the wrench notches made for the usual sizes of nuts on a bicycle.

But the fancy handle discouraged me from suggesting it.

Could be, I'll see if I can find anything similar on the web.

Wasn't it me wot said that?

Air ye a jurdie mun? (other brown ales are available!)

I realize that I owe you some pictures of the mortise lock latch. Havn't been to where I have my mortise lock stored.

The wooden ball looks a LOT like the ink balls used for old movable type printing press.

If you open this photo in your browser:

In the foreground is a wooden railing that keeps the public back. The corner of the railing points to a black table, and on the table are two such ink balls.

This is the page that hosts the picture I sent:

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The leather handle has a picture of a landscape with a moose, I thought it could be for an outdoorsman but maybe it's just a general purpose combination tool. Also the wooden ball is still unidentified but the rest of the answers have been posted and can be seen here:

Rob

In the foreground is a wooden railing that keeps the public back. The

Functionally, I think it would be a disadvantage for an ink ball to be a full sphere or to come apart.

It has been suggested that this was a form to make medicine balls. Originally, they were only approximately round. They were sewed inside out like pincushions.

More recent medicine balls had polar caps, suggesting that they were sewn on forms. The caps I've seen are much too small to remove the four largest wedges of the mystery form. Small wedges were more important for making basketballs because it was important to remove them without cutting the reinforcing cords.

The four large wedges suggest to me that it may have been to make pinatas. You'd stick the stem in a hole in your bench, wax the wood, wrap it with paper mache, remove the top by cutting a latitude line larger than the Arctic Circle around the stem, remove the form, and use more paper mache to stick the top back on. A pinata didn't have to be strong like a basketball.

In the foreground is a wooden railing that keeps the public back. The

Those aren't full round balls, they are for applying the ink to the plates. They are stuffed very firmly with wool and the skin is leather. I don't see any way that a wooden ball could work. I liked the pinata idea - the segmented wooden ball must be for taking it apart after some type of ball was formed.

No problem, if at some point in time you can send some photos, great, if you never get around to it that's fine too.

I agree with Dan that the ink balls were stuffed with wool and were not solid wood.