Author Topic: Antique Hook Decoration!  (Read 1978 times)

turbo-city

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Re: Antique Hook Decoration!
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2014, 04:43:08 am »
And!!...your question is?.....what is it used for.....well, its a baling hook...over here in Scotland,they were used when unloading bales of Jute,..my home town.of Dundee, was during the late 1800,s and well into the mid to late 1900,s..the Jute processing capital of the world...and down at the docks this kind of hook was an essential tool,of a stevedore...thats a longshoreman in the US...when bales of jute were unloaded,over in the US...it would be used on cotton bales,.....or hay bales,....
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Re: Antique Hook Decoration!
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2014, 05:13:26 am »
Check out this item ! ;D

www.ebay.com/itm/171225929085?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

OH MY GARSH, ....... $100 for an old "hay hook" or "meat hook".

Here is one sold for $10.50 which is bout right.

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Re: Antique Hook Decoration!
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2014, 05:20:26 am »
A meat hook....well, not that one....any meat hooks i,ve seen are made of stainless steel.....but as you say cogar...$10 is about right,..for that rusty looking speciman.....
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Re: Antique Hook Decoration!
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2014, 09:56:42 pm »
turbo-city, if you are advertising to sell - sorry, you are in a "Antique Questions Forum".

if you have questions to ask about items and find out their origins/uses - then you have come to the right place!  That is what this forum is for.  So ask away.  Thanks!

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