Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: lbpesq on October 18, 2020, 01:18:53 PM
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Totally non-Alembic, non-musical thread. With all the varied smart people around here, I thought maybe someone might recognize this and tell me what it is!
Bill, tgo
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looks like a brass runway marker tag for underground electrical service. i engrave dozens of these every coupla months or so. gimme a while and I'll post a picture.
but i don't think that's what you have. sorry. 🤡
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Looks like a wall mounted coat hook to me. But there's no size reference, so if it's 6 ft tall then it's a modern art sculpture.
Jimmy J
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That there friends, is a doo-mahickey. ;D I dunno... maybe part of a piece of jewelry?
Tony? [peoplechipper] You got anything?
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Doorstop ? Wax seal press? Necklace holder?
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cuff-link, broken
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Is that sitting on a couch cushion? :o
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Got it...it's a fancy TP holder from a hotel you were recently at. (??) ;)
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The scallops correspond to fingers, like a brass knuckles. The best we’ve come up with is a counter top toilet paper roll holder. But none of the hotels I stayed at on my recent cross country trip was all that fancy. The base is inscribed “Bridge. Made in France”. Senior Management googled “brass bridge”. I bet everyone around here can guess what she came up with! Lol!
Bill, tgo
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Hey Bill - how's about something to show scale?
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It’s too dark to take a decent pic, but sizewise it’s kind of like the handle on a sword, without the sword part.
Bill, tgo
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Bridge of a ship? Too big to be a coffee tamper. It's a doo-hicky or a thing-a-ma-jig or a gizzmo or a whats-it!
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A culinary tool . :)
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Helium Balloon base.
Certainly not one of those things you'd put in a thing. 😷
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as promised, the bronze runway marker. maybe a distant cousin? you can drive a jet over mine. i'm not so sure about yours...
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It’s a meat pounder I think. For flattening cuts of meat.
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...or it might be a sword, stuck deep into the couch!
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Bridge is a cookware company that for a while although a New York company imported cookware from France made to its own specs by French manufacturers. Meat tenderizers styled like this are not as common as the mallet type but are actually a thing (as are ones shaped like brass knuckles, strangely). They were sometimes made of brass although now are more commonly stainless steel. So I think that’s what it is although I am partial to the “Sword in the Couch” theory.
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The base is inscribed “Bridge. Made in France”.
After that last batch i engraved for the runways at DIA, i had to engrave one of the rejects that now resides in the bass room...
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So I think that’s what it is although I am partial to the “Sword in the Couch” theory.
LOL...Who will be King (and of what?) ::)
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Following up on Richard's post, I found this example ...
https://d3h6k4kfl8m9p0.cloudfront.net/stories/KtiGV8fpzgvD6C-7zmkfGg.jpeg (https://d3h6k4kfl8m9p0.cloudfront.net/stories/KtiGV8fpzgvD6C-7zmkfGg.jpeg)
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So I think that’s what it is although I am partial to the “Sword in the Couch” theory.
LOL...Who will be King (and of what?) ::)
Why, you will Rule Couchland of course!
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.....and the National food of that place is potatoes.
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I think Richard "Hankster" has solved the mystery. As many of you know, I just returned from driving California-NY-California as my 95 year old mom just got out of the hospital and moved into an assisted living facility. I was, among other things, clearing out my mom's apartment and brought this interesting piece back with me. I've been staring at it for years, or even decades. My wife and I were puzzled, so we thought what better esoteric knowledge base than this group of folks. Y'all came through! (Though I would prefer if it were actually Sword-In-The-Couch ... I'd love to rule over Barco-Lounger Land).
Bill, tgo
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I did something like that once when my 96yo Grandfathers estate was sold (before the internet existed). I grabbed this thing that I could not figure out what it was. It had a gun trigger in a small brass case with 12 blades that it cocked and then fired so that they swished out the top and back in. Turns out it was a very old 'Scarificator' which was used to medically bleed people couple hundred of years ago. It replaced leeches! I sold it for pretty good money after I discovered what it was.
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Good work Team!
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Turns out it was a very old 'Scarificator' ...
...wondering if Paul Gilbert had one in mind with his song "Scarified" :-X
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This illustrates what everyone already knows - there is no question too obscure for old musicians to answer, nor too unprofitable. If only we could harness our powers for good, instead of plain old fun and companionship!
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Shoot, would that mean I would have to give up my plan for world domination?
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meat pounder. never woulda got that, but I can see why this type is obscure now as a mallet would be more efficient...
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Interesting, I was going to guess potato masher...I guess I was in the right category! :)
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meat pounder. never woulda got that, but I can see why this type is obscure now as a mallet would be more efficient...
Not obscure at all but are used more by professional than home cooks and tend to cost more.
https://www.bakedeco.com/detail.asp?id=56769&trng=fgle&gclid=Cj0KCQjwuL_8BRCXARIsAGiC51B61fJtt8UmNF2pkmrHpHO3JozCIwSWa0-j8RKpatnO4se8-TmWFFUaAldxEALw_wcB (https://www.bakedeco.com/detail.asp?id=56769&trng=fgle&gclid=Cj0KCQjwuL_8BRCXARIsAGiC51B61fJtt8UmNF2pkmrHpHO3JozCIwSWa0-j8RKpatnO4se8-TmWFFUaAldxEALw_wcB)
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Too bad the Duck Press is missing to make the set . . . . .
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I have seen things like this that were embossed with a expensive country club's crest and used to stamp their logo into the sand of a a sand filled ash tray that was first smoothed over.