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    Posted 7 years ago

    SpiritBear
    (813 items)

    While I don't think it's from the 'square nail' era, the thin, half-dollar-sized disk is pressed into the wood-wrapped tube by a square-headed nail or peg. The end of the tube is open.

    What is its use and age?

    I found it in a box of junk at a thrift store and picked it up out of curiosity.

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    1. Onedtent, 7 years ago
      Looks like a paint scraper to me.
    2. Phonoboy Phonoboy, 7 years ago
      Looks like a turn of the century electric therapy part used on the temples. Odd find.
    3. SpiritBear, 7 years ago
      Onedtent, I cannot see how it would be used to scrape paint.

      Phonoboy, when I first saw it, I had thought electrical. But it was difficult for me to formulate an idea as to what it would be used for. LOL.
    4. Rick55 Rick55, 7 years ago
      No idea, but it's interesting Spirit.
    5. SpiritBear, 7 years ago
      Interesting enough to lay down a couple quarters for. LOL.
    6. AnythingObscure AnythingObscure, 7 years ago
      ABOLUTELY interesting enough SpiritBear?! <applause> Can you tell what kinda metal it is made out of? It looks kinda rusty (indicating steel) which might fit the 'paint scraper' theory, but if its corroded brass (plated?) instead it could fit the much more-funner 'electrical therapy thing' theory... ;-)
    7. SpiritBear, 7 years ago
      It's heavy but not magnetic. I gouged the underside, but it remained a white metal. I'm guessing zinc or magnesium.
      I've never seen a round scraped, Anything Obscure.
    8. PoliticalPinbacks PoliticalPinbacks, 7 years ago
      Non functional Prototype Dremel LOL
    9. Phonoboy Phonoboy, 7 years ago
      It would have had a sponge disk on its end originally, if my assumption is corect.
    10. SpiritBear, 7 years ago
      Political Pinbacks, LOL.

      Phonoboy, if I connect a minor battery to the end, do you think it will feel nice on my temples?
    11. Phonoboy Phonoboy, 7 years ago
      I don't think so.

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