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Re: What is it!
« Reply #15 on: November 23, 2009, 02:47:52 pm »
Very good! But was this back when clothes were washed by hand or when there were automatic washers?

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Re: What is it!
« Reply #16 on: November 23, 2009, 04:47:19 pm »
Prove it cogar!!!  :O

Confused on why the pointed ends if it was for clothes!
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Re: What is it!
« Reply #17 on: November 23, 2009, 09:58:00 pm »
KC , maybe cogar was thinking of those Madonna torpedo-shaped thingies ....?

I'm pretty sure this is a kitchen item .

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Re: What is it!
« Reply #18 on: November 23, 2009, 09:59:07 pm »
Hmmm... Cogar m'dear, I'm gonna have to challenge that answer too. I think the punched tin would be too harsh on the clothing and the soapy water would rust it up in no time, then you'd have rust stains on your clothes.

Hey... here's a novel idea, could it be a tool that you would form ice cream cones around, and the cone dough would cool the way you form fortune cookies, they harden after they are baked? (Don't know, never made 'em. Off to google this one)

LOL KC!!
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Re: What is it!
« Reply #19 on: November 23, 2009, 10:10:36 pm »
Oooh!! I might be onto something here- turns out that ice cream cones date to 1904 and they are formed by grilling the batter on a flat iron, then formed into a cone shape, then the ends are pinched to seal them. Maybe, just maybe, this thing is an ice cream cone maker?!! Can anyone find one?

One other possibility, do you guys remember the old Victorian Christmas treat cones that you would fill up with treats and hang from the tree? Could it be for forming those?

History of ice cream cones source info:
http://www.joyofbaking.com/IceCreamCones.html

Good job for inspiring a search by suggesting "cones" KC!!! LOL!!!
« Last Edit: November 23, 2009, 10:16:51 pm by talesofthesevenseas »
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Re: What is it!
« Reply #20 on: November 23, 2009, 10:14:46 pm »
I make my own cones , using a krumkaka iron , as is common in "custom" ice cream shops .

The cooked 'dough' is removed from the irons , while hot , then wrapped around a tapered dowel .

You're getting real close to the use of this little tin item , though , talesof .

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Re: What is it!
« Reply #21 on: November 24, 2009, 12:00:16 am »
Took the words right out of my fingers again regjoe!

Tales of they are formed on wooden dowels into the cone shape.  Have done this many times!

This could have been a torture device!  :)  OUCH!

Could be used to split open coconuts!  :)

Love these "what is it" posts!
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Re: What is it!
« Reply #22 on: November 24, 2009, 07:31:51 am »
Hmmm... Cogar m'dear, I'm gonna have to challenge that answer too. I think the punched tin would be too harsh on the clothing and the soapy water would rust it up in no time, then you'd have rust stains on your clothes.

Uh, Tales, there were literally tens of millions of tin kitchen implements that the soapy dish water did NOT rust them up in no time and …. and …… and what can I say, to wit:

It is not heavy.  It is hollow and made of tin.  It is rough on the outside of the cylinder but not sharp like a grater.  It remains a mystery.

Prove it cogar!!!  :O

Confused on why the pointed ends if it was for clothes!

KC, look at this picture, to wit:

Now picture that woman holding that tin “thingy” rather than the washboard.

Having blunt ends would make it more likely to “snag” on the clothes one was scrubbing ……. and oval ends are not an easy thing for a tinsmith to be making unless it was mass produced and then a die would have had to been made to form them.

And if you look at the picture AntiquesOnTheS posted you can clearly see the “dimples” in the tin were “hand punched” and thus not mass produced.

And KC, I am not definitely stating that is a “clothes scrubber”, but it is a definitely possibility that that is what it was made for.

Cheers 

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Re: What is it!
« Reply #23 on: November 24, 2009, 09:14:33 am »
HEY!!! Who snapped that pic of me doing laundry?!!!
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Re: What is it!
« Reply #24 on: November 24, 2009, 10:31:01 am »
Just messin with you cogar!  

Have seen washboards for years...even used them a few times at grandma's - she said there were some things that new machines couldn't do!  (Yeah, punish a kid for gettin too dirty! Ha!)

The item does have a "rasping" quality!  

This is gonna drive me crazy.....gotta stick with this one and find out what it is!

What part of the country was it from?

Meat tenderizer?
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Re: What is it!
« Reply #25 on: November 24, 2009, 10:40:27 am »
That's not Tales doin laundry, that's Sarah Palin doin laundry, Alaska style.

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Re: What is it!
« Reply #26 on: November 24, 2009, 03:44:23 pm »
 :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

OMG I just totally burst out laughing in the middle of a restaurant!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: What is it!
« Reply #27 on: November 24, 2009, 04:35:34 pm »
WHAT IS SO SAD....WHEN I LOOKED AT IT AGAIN....I CAN PICTURE SARA!  I laughed out loud too!  She wouldn't be ashamed!

Showed it to several friends...they all agreed that it would snag clothes.  wash board have wavy metal that has smooth surfaces.

It is more of a rasp/grater.
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Re: What is it!
« Reply #28 on: November 24, 2009, 07:15:48 pm »
Alright then ... here's what I think you've got :


a fondant tool .

My guess on it's age would be from the time/era when the use of dragees was a very novel/popular presentation .

This would also be handy for simulating citrus skin , and other textures ..



Let them eat cake !

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Re: What is it!
« Reply #29 on: November 24, 2009, 08:42:53 pm »
A what?