Any ideas? BF and I were sitting here puzzling over it, when I read the "bloody diffucult" bit out (he wasn't sitting close enough to the computer to read it). A couple of minutes later I looked over at him and I said, "are you thinking of surgical uses for that thing too?" ick :P
Blood Letting!
Eh, a wind-up pace maker from the 1700's?
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At first I thoutght it was some kind of small mechanical calculator, but I am thinking now it is for setting surgical staples.
Hi Chem !!!
Me thinks......................
Its a wind up music box.
I'm surprised DoN didnt figger that one out before I stumbled upon it........fellow free reed player and all.......
I recognized the scarificator from the movie "Sharpe's Company", in which it was used on the arm of the foppish CO.
Oh, wait! It's a Bic pen cap!!
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Eww. :) You win my congrats. And once again, eww. That page is a little gross to be reading before my first coffee (not good with blood... at all). Guess I asked for it though. :)
chem
Tom Del Rosso wrote:
Phlebotomy.
Many people _still_ discover this by handling one and turning the handle, not by looking at a picture. Yuck.
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 08:24:37 GMT, Ernie Leimkuhler brought forth from the murky depths:
I've already sent in my winning guess. It's a wind-up palm dicer.
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I had seen something that looked like this in a museum once. It was a wind up blood lancet. In the days when people believed that draining blood from the patient helped, they would pierce the arms and let blood out. The windup key is on one side, and the lancets shoot out the other when a button is pressed. Maybe this is why there are no protrusions out of the slots on the left. If it is a bleeder, the knives would be a dead giveaway.
I don't really 100% think this is what it is because of the plating, but it does look very similar to that item I saw in the museum.
Steve
I emailed the guy from that page last night before I posted the address here and received a reply from him today saying that, yes, it's a blood letter, and that he had received a correct answer from Canada yesterday.
chem
Larry Jaques wrote:
I got it right, then.
Steve
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:10:47 -0400, chem brought forth from the murky depths:
I got an email from a guy who had tried to figure out the item in the way I described it being used (jokingly) and it did the slice and dice to his poor palm. He said it was my turn to post a mystery item. I'll check my shop tomorrow. I've collected odd and sundry old tools which might be a good mystery.
Carry on!
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Yessir, you did. :)
chem
SteveB wrote:
Let us know when he puts your mystery item on the webpage. :)
chem
Larry Jaques wrote:
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:47:23 -0400, chem brought forth from the murky depths:
Will do.
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