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643, tool a bricklayer would use for carrying mortar around a site with?
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645. Holder for black powder or shot pellets?

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643 is a hod.

Used to carry bricks or mortar on the shoulder.

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647 looks like an asparagus-harvesting knife.

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645. oh! "TWO 3/4" diameter" oh. wow. that'd be kinda small for a "fire
grenade". huh! i have no idea/no guess.

642 A loom weight
643 A Hod for carrying morter judging by the angle.
644 The bow from string instrument.
645 Don't know but a powder flask seems likely
646:
647 Asparagus knife used to cut below the surface of the ground.

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642. Not a clue. It's a love stone.

643. Hod Carrier

644. Part of a drawer slide?

645. Aerial target. Tossed in the air, shot with a pistol/rifle/shotgun.
Used by exhibition shooters.

646. Animal tattoo tool. Letter V

647. Harvesting/weeding tool of some sort.

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some cool looking objects.

my guesses...

642. head of a native american war club? must've taken some doing getting
that hole all the way through.
643. hod for carrying slate shingles?
644. can't tell/can't guess
645. that's cool, have no idea, i mean, besides being a some kind of funky
glass bottle. fire grenade? (putting out fires)
646. jeez, first thing that came to mind was some kind of veterinary tattoo
device. looks brutal.
647. can't imagine the purpose, scythe shaped... serrated... "short"
blade... only guess would be for killing weeds.

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644. A.... frog!

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great great grandfather Urp's club head.


645. Maybe a tear gas container used as a "trap" inside some old safes?

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642. Sharpening stone.
643. Brick carrying thingy.
644. Stringed instrument bow.
645. It seems to be weighted at the base. Possibly a target.
646. Used to tattoo the letter "V" into the lips of horses and similar
animals.
647. Used to harvest vegetables/fruit (asparagus or pineapples?).

Carl G.

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642: A Toker/joint holder. You poke the joint into one end of the hole,
and take a hit off the other end of the hole. This one looks like
it's carved from some very expensive agate. A rich guy's toker. ;-)

643: a flowerpot holder for backyard garden parties, or drink stand for
the same party. :-)

644: close-up of one of the "X"- shaped joints of two legs of a camp cot,
folded.

645: I was going to say, Xmas tree ornament, but actually, "tear gas globe"
is about as plausible. ;-)

646: no guess

647: Clearly, a sickle for stuff that needs to be cut close to the ground.

Thanks!
Rich

645. Two guesses that haven't been offered yet:
Fire extinguisher - throw at the base of the flame and it
breaks releasing the chemical retardent.
Float for a fishing net.

Art

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642. Banner Stone

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#644 Frog end of a fiddle bow.

I can tell you that Item 643 is a very effective device for teaching recent
high-school graduates that a college education is a GOOD THING. Speaking
from practical experience, a four hour stint (with two other young and
healty teen-age males) carrying said device (filled with moartar) up a
series of ladders to an older Italian gentleman laying brick gave me
first-hand experience. The Italian brick layer knew no conversational
English that we could discern (save for "faster" and "more mud", but he had
a vocabulary of English cuss words that would astound Roget. By noon, the
three of us were so tired we could barely crawl to our cars to run away and
hide. I never went back. I wrote my wages off to experience, and over the
ensuing fifty years, never regretted it for a moment.


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I can tell you that Item 643 is a very effective device for teaching recent
high-school graduates that a college education is a GOOD THING. Speaking
from practical experience, a four hour stint (with two other young and
healty teen-age males) carrying said device (filled with moartar) up a
series of ladders to an older Italian gentleman laying brick gave me
first-hand experience. The Italian brick layer knew no conversational
English that we could discern (save for "faster" and "more mud", but he had
a vocabulary of English cuss words that would astound Roget. By noon, the
three of us were so tired we could barely crawl to our cars to run away and
hide. I never went back. I wrote my wages off to experience, and over the
ensuing fifty years, never regretted it for a moment.


HAHHAHAHA That is too funny!!!! Sounds just like I was there!!!! 'Cept an
old german gent!!!





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Bruce T said:

I can tell you that Item 643 is a very effective device for teaching
recent
high-school graduates that a college education is a GOOD THING. Speaking
from practical experience, a four hour stint (with two other young and
healty teen-age males) carrying said device (filled with moartar) up a
series of ladders to an older Italian gentleman laying brick gave me
first-hand experience. The Italian brick layer knew no conversational
English that we could discern (save for "faster" and "more mud", but he
had
a vocabulary of English cuss words that would astound Roget. By noon, the
three of us were so tired we could barely crawl to our cars to run away
and
hide. I never went back. I wrote my wages off to experience, and over
the ensuing fifty years, never regretted it for a moment.

I suspect many people have similar had experiences.

It is a very liberating feeling, when working in such an environment, to
just sidle up to the corner and then KEEP ON SIDLING until you're round
another corner, and then just run for it and, as you say, to hell with the
wages. Alas, only the very young and the very old can normally afford to
get away with it.

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,;I can tell you that Item 643 is a very effective device for teaching recent
,;high-school graduates that a college education is a GOOD THING. Speaking
,;from practical experience, a four hour stint (with two other young and
,;healty teen-age males) carrying said device (filled with moartar) up a
,;series of ladders to an older Italian gentleman laying brick gave me
,;first-hand experience. The Italian brick layer knew no conversational
,;English that we could discern (save for "faster" and "more mud", but he had
,;a vocabulary of English cuss words that would astound Roget. By noon, the
,;three of us were so tired we could barely crawl to our cars to run away and
,;hide. I never went back. I wrote my wages off to experience, and over the
,;ensuing fifty years, never regretted it for a moment.

That brought back memories of a summer hauling mud to bricklayers.
Every morning I would wake up with my fingers conformed to the shape
of the wheelbarrow handles. It took about five minutes of slowly
loosening them before they functioned normally. "More mud" must be a
basic part of their vocabulary.

By September I was anxious to get back to college.

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I can tell you that Item 643 is a very effective device for teaching recent
high-school graduates that a college education is a GOOD THING. Speaking
from practical experience, a four hour stint (with two other young and
healty teen-age males) carrying said device (filled with moartar) up a
series of ladders to an older Italian gentleman laying brick gave me
first-hand experience. The Italian brick layer knew no conversational
English that we could discern (save for "faster" and "more mud", but he had
a vocabulary of English cuss words that would astound Roget. By noon, the
three of us were so tired we could barely crawl to our cars to run away and
hide. I never went back. I wrote my wages off to experience, and over the
ensuing fifty years, never regretted it for a moment.


In my college years I worked one summer at the pinball machine factory.
It was a decent job. Pay was good, assembly work wasn't too hard.

But during the last week you were there, they had to train somebody else to
do your job.

So they had you pull nails out of the wiring harness boards.

These were 4'x4' sheets of 3/4" plywood with a blueprint of the harness on
them and a nail at every bend and termination.

There were maybe 80 nails in each board and a stack of boards about 20'x 30'
by 10' high.

Six of us pulled nails 8hrs a day

The guy in charge was a fellow named Zeno, who only spoke an eastern
european dialect that none of us could recognize.

He talked constantly, and although we couldn't understand him, you could
tell by the rhythm and laughing that he was telling jokes.

He was also putting nails into new boards at a rate slightly faster than the
six of us combined could pull them out.

Okay, picture this.
Six College kids, doing mind numbingly boring work on a stack of boards that
does not get any smaller, but is in fact growing slightly larger every day,
listening to someone blather on constantly in an unintelligible language.

By the third day, we were all so punchy, we thought Zeno's undecipherable
jokes were hilarious. He kept us in stitches for the rest of the week.

He probably thought he was worlds greatest standup comic.

I don't think any of us came back for a second summer.

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642) Hmm ... an interesting one. It strikes me as being too likely
to chip for most uses, especially with that shape. But is it
possible that this is what is (or was) used for dispatching
cattle in the slaughterhouses?

643) Hod -- for a bricklayer to carry mortar in when laying bricks.

644) It appears to be holding a stack of paper. Could it be part of
a paper tray for a laser printer, or perhaps a home photocopier?

645) I've never seen one of these before. Is it possible that it is
(or was) the standard bottle for shipping and storing nitroglycerine?

646) Obviously to form the letter 'V' for some purpose.

Could it be for electro-etching letters into metals?

Could it be for making pinholes in stencils for such etching?

I think that I have seen etched markings in tools with such a
dotty pattern.

647) Perhaps for cutting off plant stems flush with the ground?

A good set of strange tools and objects this time around.

Now to see what others have guessed.

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642. Banner stone, part of an atlatl, a primitive dart throwing tool

643. Hod, for carry mortar

644. Frog end of a violin bow

645. Target ball, for shooting exhibitions and competitions

646. Horse tattoo tool, I thought it was for leather until I read some of
the responses here

647. Garden weeding tool


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642. Banner stone, part of an atlatl, a primitive dart throwing tool

I knew I've seen those somewhere. An atlatl
throws something much heavier than implied by
"dart," I would call it a spear thrower.


643. Hod, for carry mortar

644. Frog end of a violin bow

645. Target ball, for shooting exhibitions and competitions

646. Horse tattoo tool, I thought it was for leather until I read some of
the responses here

647. Garden weeding tool


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