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It's clearly the original British Rail tea urn.
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Penners said:
Nah...too clean!
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That's the concentrated tannic acid at work. :wink:
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This is hilarious.. Give up yet :?: I've got some more that I need to get on with. :lol:
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By all means. It involves smoke, plumbers and drains........
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Humph. In Ireland that could still mean a poteen still!
But more likely a thing for making smoke to hide the ships from the enemy when sailing on the village pond.
Or just testing the drains for leaks - but that would be boring.
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Yea, it's the boring one.. an oily rag, bellows and connected to the drains by a pipe and a stopper in the other end of the pipe and the smoke would show through a pinhole. It dates early 20th Century. I had two of them and the other one is in the Plumbers workshop. at the Weald and Downland Museum.
Tried it for the 'Katy Daley' but it couldn't keep up with demand. :lol: :lol:
Tried it for the 'Katy Daley' but it couldn't keep up with demand. :lol: :lol:
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How about this one then, got to be the easiest yet. :twisted:
I've changed the bottom picture as it shows a different view.
I've changed the bottom picture as it shows a different view.
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Is it something to do with making cheese?
Note: I fully intend to give this answer to every mystery object on the basis that I will eventually be right
Note: I fully intend to give this answer to every mystery object on the basis that I will eventually be right
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MdB said:What is this for?
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:lol: :lol: :lol: thanks MdB
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bottle corker?
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plasticpigeon said:
Don't be silly, who on earth would want to put corks in bottles? The only gadget you need is the one to get the cork out of the bottle :roll:
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:lol:
The latest object is to make small holes in the ground to aerate the soil and consequently improve the lawn. They had a lot of time on their hands in the 19th C.
I've read through the explanation of the previous mystery object, and no doubt it's a good one, but I'm none the wiser. :lol:
The latest object is to make small holes in the ground to aerate the soil and consequently improve the lawn. They had a lot of time on their hands in the 19th C.
I've read through the explanation of the previous mystery object, and no doubt it's a good one, but I'm none the wiser. :lol:
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Yes, that one is indeed easy. It's a telescopic truncheon, for use by very short policemen on very tall people.DJH said:
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MdB said:What is this for?
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An industrial-sized pastry-cutter?
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LadyArowana said:MdB said:What is this for?
:wink:
:lol: :lol: :lol: thanks MdB
Looks to me like a bowl of custard in which to hide elephants
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Keith Bowman said:
It's a little know fact that elephants paint the bottom of their feet yellow so they can hide upside down in vats of custard.