I have answers for just the first and third ones this week and need some help with the rest.
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Rob
What is it? Set 491
May 02, 2013
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2860 - Would stating the obvious be incorrect then, a child's canoe/coracle paddle?
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2860 - Would stating the obvious be incorrect then, a child's canoe/coracle paddle?
2860 - Would stating the obvious be incorrect then, a child's canoe/coracle paddle? In fact it's more likely to be a wort (or something similar) stirrer.
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The owner referred to it as a chopper and stated in his email that "the blade is sharp" and that it weighs about four pounds. So I was thinking that most of it was made of metal.
2857 Hmmm... I clearly don't know what this is, but... The precision available from the globe, settings and indications are clearly inadequate for weapons targeting or navigation. I'll guess that this is a teaching-aid.
2859 - Oil can opener. Downward push of the handle would provide pour hole and air hole. Definitely pre spout days
2857, Russian pilot's guidance system?
2858, no clue. Maybe stores a written message for the next shift?
2859, mechanical press of some kind (to mention the obvious).
2860, some kind of canoe paddle. Or, maybe blocks a sluice channel for some kind of drainage system.
2861, from the rust and paint, probably from some kind of construction equipment.
2862, this is a nutty SWAG, but maybe it's a fisherman's earth worm shocker. The round thing inside is a wet cell.
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Rob
2862 - some sort of electrotherapy device?
See the photos here for something not completely dissimilar.
A Globe washing machine!
LOL! Two points for the most creative guess of the week.
Sorry, forgot the "here":
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2857 Sure looks like a movie prop, to send the position of a fictional Russian ship back to mother Russia.---or a death ray targeting device (shades of Captain Video).
2857- Looks like an instrument from the old manned rooskie spy satellite/station used to aim one of the orbit-to-ground telescopes.
satellite/station used to aim one of the orbit-to-ground telescopes.
Was going by memory- WAS used on the almaz spy satellite, but other rooskie orbital craft as well.
Can opener is correct, though it was marked beer can opener for use at a bar. I couldn't find another like it on the web, nor could I find a similar oil can opener.
Thanks for the translations, I'll post them with my answer for it.
I agree that it's probably some kind of quack medical device though I haven't been able to prove it.
Good one Leon!
2861 Is a mount for temporarily attaching a hitch ball to a bumper back when vehicles had real bumpers. Art
Thanks! Looks like you are correct, I just found the patent for it:
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