the marble egg looking item the schoolteacher uses as a paperweight i think is actually a sock darner, when you got a hole in your sock, it would go inside so you could stitch the hole up the base is where you would hold it at white the other hand did the stitching
The egg shaped thing is more likely a sock/normal darner, you can use both the flat bottom and egg shaped bit. The "onion plate" is upsidedown and these days they are mostly soap shaped. They work by removing sulphur particles that bond to the metal more readily than the lipids on your skin barrier.
The hand / pocket warmer @1:55 should be carefully tested, the white insulation in it is most likely asbestos. That style warmer was made when asbestos was "the perfect insulation".
the handwarmer is safe and not old. you can still buy them in europe in outdoorshops. reusable, much better than the plastic-stuff and holds warm for hours. and it's not made with asbestos but glass wool .
@@a.a-b9eno! It most certainly is not! It is a bl00dy antique found in his grandpa's deceased estate. It looks nothing like fibreglass in this case and every bit like crocidolite (blue asbestos). My grandfather's estate had one that was near new. That one clearly had crocidolite as the insulator, but in a far better state. This one is in a shocking state, the fibres are all loose and fluffy. Please stop talking out of your a$$ when the consequences including a slow and lingering death from lung cancer.
This is why the glass or wire flower arranging items you showed before are better than the foam and gel now used. All kinds of gel and foam get dumped in the garbage and water. 😠
Dawgone it, can't edit. The egg was put inside of a sock or stocking to hold the fabric in position while the darker stitched back and forth to fill the hole. There should be lots of scratches on it from the needle. If not, look at the bottom. If there is a decorative motif, it could be a butter or cookie stamp...the stone was chilled and then pressed onto the surface.
I agree that the item at 1:51 is a pocket warmer but I don't think that is coal. I believe that is metal that you would heat up on the stove, put in the case and warm you pocket or hands. Did you even tray to cut or carve coal? I don't think I would like to walk around with a burning piece. of coal in my pocket.
The wooden piece for a singing bowl could also be a pestle used to force a product through a sieve, depending on size. I saw a cheese maker using something very similar, but it was larger...18" long or so
It depends what the pestle is used for. Pestles s used with a mortar are rounded to crush against the bowl. Pestles used on a grindstone or flat sieve are flat on the end.
16:09 - Believed to deter wasps and/or Carpenter Bees: Fill a plastic/ziplock bag with water with a penny inside, hang on porch or wherever wasps or Carpenter Bees tend to want to make themselves at home. Also recommended especially for wasps: large brown paper bag blown up and suspended from ceiling of porch, or where ever wasps want to make nests. The thinking is to make the wasps believe there is a larger colony of wasps already living there. Wasps won't colonize already occupied areas. 8:45 - That is a Birthing Stool. Used by midwives, it often has a circular space cut out in the front.
I actually think he might be right on this one, only because i remember one of my high school teachers had a huge patchwork leather bag that I thought was hideous. It had a very similar decorative thing that doubled over one of the thick shoulder straps and just hung there. It wasn't too large in comparison to the giant bag.
In case you didn’t think too hard about this - most of the world uses metric. That poster probably came from a different country. The people in your immediate vicinity are not the only ones on the planet. 🙄
someone whose info stinks, and they're not only clueless that their info stinks but they're confident that their info is good..... The Dunning-Kruger Effect in action
@@thaisstone5192Don't forget us older British people, many of us still use our old imperial measurements. Yes I know they are different to some measures used in the USA, but imperial measurements are my first reference, metric if I don't get an option. 🙂
Okay, that bowl that the cat is sitting in is a yarn bowl. Once the yarn is in the bowl, the single, or double strand is looped around the neck.
the marble egg looking item the schoolteacher uses as a paperweight i think is actually a sock darner, when you got a hole in your sock, it would go inside so you could stitch the hole up the base is where you would hold it at white the other hand did the stitching
I agree.
@@sophroniel we are either historians or getting old
It's called a darning egg.
@@BeverlyWorthington thank you, i knew what it's use was not it's name
4:37. Seriously? I admit I'm a gun and militaria buff, but how hard is it to guess what that thing is?
The egg shaped thing is more likely a sock/normal darner, you can use both the flat bottom and egg shaped bit. The "onion plate" is upsidedown and these days they are mostly soap shaped. They work by removing sulphur particles that bond to the metal more readily than the lipids on your skin barrier.
Always interesting. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, will do!
The hand / pocket warmer @1:55 should be carefully tested, the white insulation in it is most likely asbestos. That style warmer was made when asbestos was "the perfect insulation".
the handwarmer is safe and not old. you can still buy them in europe in outdoorshops. reusable, much better than the plastic-stuff and holds warm for hours. and it's not made with asbestos but glass wool .
@@a.a-b9eno! It most certainly is not! It is a bl00dy antique found in his grandpa's deceased estate. It looks nothing like fibreglass in this case and every bit like crocidolite (blue asbestos).
My grandfather's estate had one that was near new. That one clearly had crocidolite as the insulator, but in a far better state. This one is in a shocking state, the fibres are all loose and fluffy.
Please stop talking out of your a$$ when the consequences including a slow and lingering death from lung cancer.
@@a.a-b9e agree ! I've got one and use it !
This is why the glass or wire flower arranging items you showed before are better than the foam and gel now used. All kinds of gel and foam get dumped in the garbage and water. 😠
If its found on the shore it means it washed up and may need outback in water if it's alive 😊
I was coming to sag that the egg shaped stone is probably a darning egg.
Dawgone it, can't edit. The egg was put inside of a sock or stocking to hold the fabric in position while the darker stitched back and forth to fill the hole. There should be lots of scratches on it from the needle. If not, look at the bottom. If there is a decorative motif, it could be a butter or cookie stamp...the stone was chilled and then pressed onto the surface.
Some of these need explanations, I looked up sea angels and they’re slugs lol
I agree that the item at 1:51 is a pocket warmer but I don't think that is coal. I believe that is metal that you would heat up on the stove, put in the case and warm you pocket or hands. Did you even tray to cut or carve coal? I don't think I would like to walk around with a burning piece. of coal in my pocket.
Yet that is exactly what it is. Charcoal, like briquettes. Not the mineral you're thinking of.
@@UguysRnuts true !
The egg shaped thing that your teacher uses as a paper weight is an "egg" used for "darning" or repairing sox.
6:38 : Japanese or Chinese wood wash basin with 'Crane Of Happiness' motif.
Already identified on Reddit.
The wooden piece for a singing bowl could also be a pestle used to force a product through a sieve, depending on size. I saw a cheese maker using something very similar, but it was larger...18" long or so
It looked like a pestle to me.
Aren't pestles rounded on end though? I've seen many since growing up in the 70's until now and they were always rounded.
It depends what the pestle is used for. Pestles s used with a mortar are rounded to crush against the bowl. Pestles used on a grindstone or flat sieve are flat on the end.
12:00 You know exactly what that is 😂
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We used to buy the colored toilet tissue😊
That item at 5:45 is an ear ring. It may not be round but I have a pair just like that.
I thought that because it even has the stud fasteners on the back
16:09 - Believed to deter wasps and/or Carpenter Bees: Fill a plastic/ziplock bag with water with a penny inside, hang on porch or wherever wasps or Carpenter Bees tend to want to make themselves at home. Also recommended especially for wasps: large brown paper bag blown up and suspended from ceiling of porch, or where ever wasps want to make nests. The thinking is to make the wasps believe there is a larger colony of wasps already living there. Wasps won't colonize already occupied areas. 8:45 - That is a Birthing Stool. Used by midwives, it often has a circular space cut out in the front.
That's an awful long tassel. Any other ideas?
For granny boobies?
I actually think he might be right on this one, only because i remember one of my high school teachers had a huge patchwork leather bag that I thought was hideous. It had a very similar decorative thing that doubled over one of the thick shoulder straps and just hung there. It wasn't too large in comparison to the giant bag.
Please use standard American measurements. Metric is not familiar to most people.
Typical yank. Metric is far more common than "American measurements".
In case you didn’t think too hard about this - most of the world uses metric. That poster probably came from a different country. The people in your immediate vicinity are not the only ones on the planet. 🙄
@@cassiablack1094 Americans can be really snooty, can't they??? And it is the only country that uses it.
someone whose info stinks, and they're not only clueless that their info stinks but they're confident that their info is good..... The Dunning-Kruger Effect in action
@@thaisstone5192Don't forget us older British people, many of us still use our old imperial measurements. Yes I know they are different to some measures used in the USA, but imperial measurements are my first reference, metric if I don't get an option. 🙂