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Re: Can anyone identify this Leather megaphone looking item??
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2012, 08:46:16 pm »
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Re: Can anyone identify this Leather megaphone looking item??
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2012, 08:50:36 pm »
My first impression was that this item might be a 'decorative cap/spout' for a 'fishnetted' jug , as in for display only .

Really dunno what it is !
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Re: Can anyone identify this Leather megaphone looking item??
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2012, 11:45:43 pm »
Nothing is going through that....look at the interior pic....it has a leather "beam" across it!
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Re: Can anyone identify this Leather megaphone looking item??
« Reply #18 on: November 16, 2012, 04:08:51 am »
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It looks like it is made totally of leather.

Looking at the 3rd picture it looks to be wrapped in leather.

A wood form maybe because the insert is in 4 pieces and looks pretty thick for leather.

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Re: Can anyone identify this Leather megaphone looking item??
« Reply #19 on: November 16, 2012, 06:32:24 am »
KC,, couldnt tell if that was attached to both sides or just appeared to be !!

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Re: Can anyone identify this Leather megaphone looking item??
« Reply #20 on: November 16, 2012, 07:10:06 am »
Nothing is going through that....look at the interior pic....it has a leather "beam" across it!
liquid would go through it...because if you look closely...you can see right through....
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Re: Can anyone identify this Leather megaphone looking item??
« Reply #21 on: November 17, 2012, 02:54:18 am »
Any possibility of it being the bell off of a car horn from the old horseless carriage days?
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Re: Can anyone identify this Leather megaphone looking item??
« Reply #22 on: November 17, 2012, 04:57:12 am »
could be...stick a rubber ball on the end...and get a muted toot,toot... ;D
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Re: Can anyone identify this Leather megaphone looking item??
« Reply #23 on: November 17, 2012, 10:51:18 am »
These characters seemed to have a similar puzzle. Excerpt from The Leather Funnel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

     "That is a curious thing," I remarked. "What is the history of that?"

     "Ah!" said he, "it is the very question which I have had occasion to ask myself. I would give a good deal to know. Take it in your hands and examine it."

     I did so, and found that what I had imagined to be wood was in reality leather, though age had dried it into an extreme hardness. It was a large funnel, and might hold a quart when full. The brass rim encircled the wide end, but the narrow was also tipped with metal.

     "What do you make of it?" asked Dacre.

     "I should imagine that it belonged to some vintner or maltster in the Middle Ages," said I. "I have seen in England leathern drinking flagons of the seventeenth century - 'black jacks' as they were called - which were of the same colour and hardness as this filler."

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Re: Can anyone identify this Leather megaphone looking item??
« Reply #24 on: November 17, 2012, 02:05:05 pm »
You to me it looks like the game where you put the ball in the open part and a stick in the narrow part and then you could fling the ball, like an early lacrosse stick.
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Re: Can anyone identify this Leather megaphone looking item??
« Reply #25 on: November 17, 2012, 02:22:23 pm »
Okay Wullie....let me restate my comment previously....meant that the wine bottle wouldn't go through it and yes I should have said that but didn't....and yes something liquid can go through it.....(did I miss anything?LOLOL).

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