The last item.I first thought It was an eyeglasses case for a musician, but short google search resulted to the correct answer: it is a runic calendar box. The symbols tell what time is best for what activity. Obviously they did not use runes any more on 1700's but the name stayed. You could put anything you'd like in it, but most used it for tobacco.
I saw an item similar to your butter pat pick many years ago at an antiques flea market! I guessed correctly on the coal chute and the pocket watch case!
That Brass box I am sure has nothing to do with tobacco they do not put mirrors in them. It is what is known as a patch box used by men and women to put a type of black dot on your face a sort of makeup patch. It is said the patches where to cover up large pox marks on the face its mirror is usually in the lid to help the person to place the patch in the correct place.
The last item: I've never seen anything like it. However, just from reading what is on it and using my imagination, it looks like a guide for encoding and decoding messages. Notice the months written on the end, and beside each month 2 rows of alphabets that do not match up. There are interesting symbols interspersed with the letters. It has the date 1787 engraved on one end, with Runstaf W&N Forswenskad - this translates from Danish as "runestaff w&n disappearance damage" . I get the feeling that it was a soldier's item. I hope someone can identify it for real!
Radar detectors are illegal in almost every state in the US. You don't want to be caught with one. The odds are the detector will only warn you after you've already been flagged by the officer using the radar gun.
Lol that’s a fancy prison shank….. butter pick, prison shank…. Same same
The last item.I first thought It was an eyeglasses case for a musician, but short google search resulted to the correct answer: it is a runic calendar box. The symbols tell what time is best for what activity. Obviously they did not use runes any more on 1700's but the name stayed. You could put anything you'd like in it, but most used it for tobacco.
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I saw an item similar to your butter pat pick many years ago at an antiques flea market!
I guessed correctly on the coal chute and the pocket watch case!
Last item: spectacle case?
That Brass box I am sure has nothing to do with tobacco they do not put mirrors in them. It is what is known as a patch box used by men and women to put a type of black dot on your face a sort of makeup patch. It is said the patches where to cover up large pox marks on the face its mirror is usually in the lid to help the person to place the patch in the correct place.
The last item: I've never seen anything like it. However, just from reading what is on it and using my imagination, it looks like a guide for encoding and decoding messages. Notice the months written on the end, and beside each month 2 rows of alphabets that do not match up. There are interesting symbols interspersed with the letters. It has the date 1787 engraved on one end, with Runstaf W&N Forswenskad - this translates from Danish as "runestaff w&n disappearance damage" . I get the feeling that it was a soldier's item. I hope someone can identify it for real!
Yes! I had one in the Army in the 70s, It's a Little Orphan Annie Code Breaker, the key code was ... "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"!
Radar detectors are illegal in almost every state in the US. You don't want to be caught with one. The odds are the detector will only warn you after you've already been flagged by the officer using the radar gun.
Radar detectors are LEGAL in every state except for Mississippi and Virginia.