6:36 is an air wedge. Nothing to do with cars unless you are a car thief. You use is to lift doors to align hinges as well as levelling heavy objects before securing them. Very common in the carpenter trade.
6:30. That is definitely a moustache mug. A shaving scuttle is similar but will have spout…looks kind of like a teapot. Just Google both to compare images.
That candy cane kiss dummy is a MAJOR QC failure. Not only did the equipment fail to detect and reject it. Workers failed to notice the equipment failure. The ENTIRE batch should have been blocked and production halted until the dummy was found.
Certainly making me pretty cautious about ever buying Candy Cane products... 🛍🚫🤔 Thankfully they don't offer their products in the UK, so we're safe...For the moment! 😉
@@donaldcarey114 Give me break, to 99% of the people it's an arrow head. There's always one of you that needs to show how smart you think you are, by pointing out stupid details that no one else cares about.
While I can't disagree with any of the answers, I can shed some light for the younger generation. The item at 8:33 is a hotel or motel motion detector. I stayed in a hotel that if it did not see motion after a period of time, it shut off the A/C. At 12: 39 is more than a bug hotel, it is a Carpenter Bee :"Hotel". Better to have them there then setting up housekeeping in your home. At 17:58 is a telephone booth fan. Because the blades did not have a cage around them, they were made of soft rubber. Thay dried out and denigrated after time.
I think the mug is a moustache mug. Ya drink from the side with the perforations, and ya don't 'dunk' your moustache into what you're drinking. That's my WAG. OTOH, you could be right about a shaving mug.
Unmentioned was the fact that the brush was placed in the perforated section, to drain back into the cup. Some would have a simple bridge to form a rest for the same purpose.
@@russbilzing5348 The soap sits in the perforated tray and you use the brush to make lather. Hot water in the bottom. Excess water on the soap drains back into the water reservoir.
I feel kinda clever, or old! I knew a few of those, the herb scissors, the portable ashtray, the orange juicer, the flower arranger, the ink wells, anda few others. The arrowhead was so obvious! And we think this century has produced some incredible inventions!!!!! I could sure use one of those bottle openers!
@robertstallard7836 You're mostly right. It is for shaving. I meant only to refute it to be for drinking tea. I actually use a badger brush and soap for shaving, but the way it's done is to put the soap AND hot water in the bottom of the mug, swirl the brush around with the soap to work up a mug full of hot lather and then brush the lather onto one's face. The perforated tray is to dump out the water and suds after shaving without losing the soap. The soap is NOT held in the perforated tray. If you actually used one of these you'd know it impossible to work up much lather in that small upper tray.
@robertstallard7836 I highly recommend it! It amazes me that people spend considerable amounts of money on an aerosol can of chemical foam, which they apply cold, and don't get either as good a job or as pleasurable an experience. Hot lather softens the beard and contains all the good ingredients of whatever quality soap one uses. I used to buy Gray's shaving soap pucks, but now I just drop whatever bar of organic goat's milk soap leftover from the bath into my antique mug. It's the perfect way to use up the wee bits too small for anything else and is virtually free.
You'll find the bug houses all over Bavaria, we call them bee houses. I have three in our yard, and it's great to watch them use them. At our local hardware store, there is a very large one for 3000€. Ot's been there for at least two years. I guess a 3000€ bee house isn't a big seller.😅
At 22:04... my parents had something like this and it is a candle snuffer...so you don't blow out the candle and blow melted wax all over the table. It also trims the wick so you are ready to go the next time you want to light the candle. My parents were old school and we had 2 candle sticks lit on the table at every dinner... We never ate in the kitchen. Thanks for your great videos. Learn a lot!
18:00 would have originally had rubber blades attached to it. You can see where they would have been by the curved slots in the hub. It says “Bell System” which was the standard phone system in the United States (Ma Bell). It would have been made by Western Electric, just like the phone that was in the booth
The "flower 'frog" is actually the lid of an ashtray. the holes are used to easily extinguish the cigarette and minimize the risk of it starting to smolder in the filters, while the ashtray becomes a bit of an ornament instead of a boring ashtray. I have such an ashtray myself
I saw the Chinese nut with the holes used as a tea-cup. You put the tea-leaves in the mug and fill it with hot water. You don't remove the leave and the holes prevent them to go into your mouth when drinking the tea.
The thing you said was a shaving cup I believe it’s a mustache mug you drink it from it if you have a mustache and it keeps supposed to keep stuff from getting in your mustache
I like this site, but how does one submit their own strange items for identification?. I have something weird that has been in the family for decades, and no one has ever found out what it is. I would love to submit. How?.
21:28 Isn't it interesting how the person used a match to show scale for what turned out to be the personal/portable ashtray? I have one of these and I thought how they could have guessed if they just took in the big picture when they put it next to a match! They were so close!
Haha, priceless... literally saw animal-themed foam door stoppers like the one at the beginning of this video, in a shop this afternoon :) Had various designs, all different animals, quite sure there was even a cow one similar to this :)
For anyone finding it hard to see how the last item is used as a juicer - the guy is holding it upside down. Those long prongs are the legs, and it's supposed to stand on them. They are so long so that the glass can fit under.
The last item is the 'Juicy Salif', Designed by Philippe Starck in 1990, supposedly based on the shape of a squid. Produced by Alessi. They were all the rage. Pretty expensive and pretty useless, as admittted by both Starck and Alessi. Starck is even quoted "not meant to squeeze lemons" but "to start conversations".
Jeepers I'm getting old. I knew the answers for a lot of these things. Granted, some where old when I was young, but the fact that I knew what they were surprised me.
1:11 The Chonta MUST be returned to Peru or to a Peruvian trained Shaman. It belongs with a healer & unless that is to be your specific path, I can only ask that you make an attempt to return it. If you are in 🇨🇦 there is a small Community of Yachakkuna (healers) here that are of the San Pedro region and not too difficult to find. Any Travel Agent that focuses on Peru will have no issues with finding you the correct person should you choose to take what I believe is the correct path however this is not mine to take and it is completely up to you. NO judgement, I can promise you that.🙏🏻from my heart, be well.
6:24 I thought that cup was used by gentlemen to keep their moustaches dry when drinking a cup of tea....? They drink from the open side and their moustache rests dry on the perforated side...? :/ now I'm not so sure
the thing under the cabinet is a jar opener. you slide the lid of the jar into the teeth bysliding it towward the skinniest part andd turning the jar. pop. bob's yer uncle.
#1 is a jar opener. They work great. edit: it has been pointed out to me that I can't count. I meant #2 is a jar opener that installs under a cupboard and fits any jar.
This is a pretty silly reply. You must not be aware of the Native American history in the north. I’m from northern MN and currently live in ND. My guess is that everyone here would also recognize what that was.
You would have to be truly thick to be an American and not recognise an arrow head. I am from New Zealand and recognised it instantly, and our native people, the Maori never used bows and l arrows !
I dont think that disc with holes is a frog. if it is on the bottom of the pot it cant get hold of the flower stems. I think it is a pot alarm. if you are waiting for water to boil and busy yourself doing something else, you put this in the pot and when the bubbles start, the disc will rattle in the pot telling you it is boiling.
It is a flower frog. It doesn't sit in the bottom of the vase. The vase has a lip around the top inner rim and the frog sits on that. Very familiar item from my childhood.
Arrowheads did not apper in the America's until about 600 years ago and were all the size of a thunbnail. The point shown was a javalin point and it was most likely NOT Hopewell.
@donaldcarey114 ok, point taken. So, how do you account for the different arrowheads used for hunting birds at a 10,000 year old site in New Mexico? I worked on that site with the UTEP archeology department.
@@breeinatree4811 Few, if any sites in the Americas have produced arrowheads VERIFIED to be over 6-700 years old. I would like to see a link to the peer reviewsd paper the team you worked with published. p.s. I have been picking up tools, points and pottery in the South Eastern U.S. for over 60 years (at first as a 4th grader, from ditch banks while walking to the school bus stop in Mecklinburg County, N.C.).
This looks like click and paste video. should explain bit better some of the photos some seems like half ass explanation.i like watching this kind of videos so go into more details. so it seems like the person making this video just click paste its. never does extra research. this is a cat this is a dog lol
I'm going to have to disagree with some of the answers. I'm 50 years old and I remember the objects being used for something else. 1349 I've seen people use that to separate the egg whites from the egg yolk, 1909 I've seen people use those to grind up soap for the laundry, 2039 I have seen people use those for snuff, four other sniffing substances.
Somebody doesn't know what an arrow head is?
Probably bait to see if they could get an offer on a fake arrowhead.
Hey! Somebody didn’t know what a flower frog is!!
that's what I said
I know! However it doesn’t look 2000 years old. Plus the Hopewell tradition was farther east &north of Nashville.
Yes, curious. I wonder where they are from.
6:36 is an air wedge. Nothing to do with cars unless you are a car thief. You use is to lift doors to align hinges as well as levelling heavy objects before securing them. Very common in the carpenter trade.
Locked my keys in the car and the triple A folks did use one to open the door.
I've seen it used to wedge open a car door help gain access
The last item is a Phillipe Stark lemon squeezer, designed by him about 1990 and considered a modern design icon.
Guess that's where the design for Serleena's spaceship in MIB 2 came from.
@@elricthebald Possibly, but similar designs can be found in 50's cartoons.
That brings back memories. It was aspirational to own one.
1:20 - The Peruvians might want that back. 😃
3:00 anyone else thought "Umm, it's a vase of some sort..." The smartass answer.
6:30. That is definitely a moustache mug. A shaving scuttle is similar but will have spout…looks kind of like a teapot. Just Google both to compare images.
Definitely want the inkwell❤
That candy cane kiss dummy is a MAJOR QC failure. Not only did the equipment fail to detect and reject it. Workers failed to notice the equipment failure. The ENTIRE batch should have been blocked and production halted until the dummy was found.
Certainly making me pretty cautious about ever buying Candy Cane products... 🛍🚫🤔
Thankfully they don't offer their products in the UK, so we're safe...For the moment! 😉
Yeah, aren't they supposed to count the dummies in the reject bin to detect a failure?
2:45 How does someone not know what an arrowhead is?
Obviously, you. (See my other post.)
@@donaldcarey114 Give me break, to 99% of the people it's an arrow head. There's always one of you that needs to show how smart you think you are, by pointing out stupid details that no one else cares about.
@@bigredc222 NEVER give ignorance a break, so NO!!
Some people (Donald) think they are so brilliant and obviously look down on the rest of the world.Snob!
@@pegs1659 Pointing out ignorance is NOT being a snob - snowflake.
While I can't disagree with any of the answers, I can shed some light for the younger generation. The item at 8:33 is a hotel or motel motion detector. I stayed in a hotel that if it did not see motion after a period of time, it shut off the A/C. At 12: 39 is more than a bug hotel, it is a Carpenter Bee :"Hotel". Better to have them there then setting up housekeeping in your home. At 17:58 is a telephone booth fan. Because the blades did not have a cage around them, they were made of soft rubber. Thay dried out and denigrated after time.
That explains the spiral slots on the cone; for the rubber blades.
It didn’t just have ‘bell’ on it, it was ‘Bell System’.
I think the mug is a moustache mug. Ya drink from the side with the perforations, and ya don't 'dunk' your moustache into what you're drinking. That's my WAG. OTOH, you could be right about a shaving mug.
Unmentioned was the fact that the brush was placed in the perforated section, to drain back into the cup. Some would have a simple bridge to form a rest for the same purpose.
I think the mustache cups usually have a smaller hole.
@@russbilzing5348 The soap sits in the perforated tray and you use the brush to make lather. Hot water in the bottom. Excess water on the soap drains back into the water reservoir.
I thought it was to separate egg whites.
It’s a tea cup. The used bag goes on the strainer to drain into the cup.
This was absolutely fascinating!!! I got around a quarter of the items right. Please, continue with these videos! Fascinating.
Wonderful findings !!! It feels like gone around the world to find these objects !!.
1:03 I really can't see how you could comfortably hang a hammock on that. And why would they place one in the middle of a city park?
It's Modern Art! Go figure. LOL
It is to hang a flower pot.
I feel kinda clever, or old! I knew a few of those, the herb scissors, the portable ashtray, the orange juicer, the flower arranger, the ink wells, anda few others. The arrowhead was so obvious! And we think this century has produced some incredible inventions!!!!! I could sure use one of those bottle openers!
Yikes! I'm old enough to recognize a lot of these things! 😂
I'm cracking myself up by giving wrong answers! LOL
You and me both LMAO
@@sheisntok4741 And me !!!
Like that mace/flower. I would say to the home owner that it was the weapon used br previous owner to murder their spouse.
@@lisatrautner1274 It’s good to be able to laugh at oneself. You sound like one of life’s well-rounded people.
Me too 😂
6:32 : not a moustache mug but a teacup. The holed part means to hold back the tea leaves.
Nope. It is definitely a moustache cup.
@robertstallard7836 You're mostly right. It is for shaving. I meant only to refute it to be for drinking tea. I actually use a badger brush and soap for shaving, but the way it's done is to put the soap AND hot water in the bottom of the mug, swirl the brush around with the soap to work up a mug full of hot lather and then brush the lather onto one's face. The perforated tray is to dump out the water and suds after shaving without losing the soap. The soap is NOT held in the perforated tray. If you actually used one of these you'd know it impossible to work up much lather in that small upper tray.
@robertstallard7836 I highly recommend it! It amazes me that people spend considerable amounts of money on an aerosol can of chemical foam, which they apply cold, and don't get either as good a job or as pleasurable an experience. Hot lather softens the beard and contains all the good ingredients of whatever quality soap one uses. I used to buy Gray's shaving soap pucks, but now I just drop whatever bar of organic goat's milk soap leftover from the bath into my antique mug. It's the perfect way to use up the wee bits too small for anything else and is virtually free.
You'll find the bug houses all over Bavaria, we call them bee houses. I have three in our yard, and it's great to watch them use them.
At our local hardware store, there is a very large one for 3000€. Ot's been there for at least two years.
I guess a 3000€ bee house isn't a big seller.😅
I believe that the cup you say is for shaving is a 'mustasch cup'. For gentlemen with big mustasches, so it doesn't get wet when they drink.
At 22:04... my parents had something like this and it is a candle snuffer...so you don't blow out the candle and blow melted wax all over the table. It also trims the wick so you are ready to go the
next time you want to light the candle. My parents were old school and we had 2 candle sticks lit on the table at every dinner... We never ate in the kitchen. Thanks for your great videos. Learn a lot!
You couldnt blow wax all over, its just for trimming dried wicks. A snuffer is conical.
18:00 would have originally had rubber blades attached to it. You can see where they would have been by the curved slots in the hub. It says “Bell System” which was the standard phone system in the United States (Ma Bell). It would have been made by Western Electric, just like the phone that was in the booth
those are clothes pins, not pegs. Pegs don't have a spring
That stick from Lima is a back scratcher.
The "flower 'frog" is actually the lid of an ashtray. the holes are used to easily extinguish the cigarette and minimize the risk of it starting to smolder in the filters, while the ashtray becomes a bit of an ornament instead of a boring ashtray.
I have such an ashtray myself
I saw the Chinese nut with the holes used as a tea-cup. You put the tea-leaves in the mug and fill it with hot water. You don't remove the leave and the holes prevent them to go into your mouth when drinking the tea.
YIPPEEE! I got the flowchart stencil! .... *whimper* I MISS my old Commodore 64!
The thing you said was a shaving cup I believe it’s a mustache mug you drink it from it if you have a mustache and it keeps supposed to keep stuff from getting in your mustache
7:36 " _I thought it was a game camera, but I don't think it is_ "
7:45 " _It's a game camera_ " 😂
I like this site, but how does one submit their own strange items for identification?. I have something weird that has been in the family for decades, and no one has ever found out what it is. I would love to submit. How?.
As far as I can find, these were / are taken from a Reddit sub called " what is this thing" ( or WITT)
The shaving cup looks like a mustache cup to me, stops handle bar mustache from getting soaked when drinking tea
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That thing that you called an ice crusher? That’s a coffee grinder. My grandparents had one.
It's an ice crusher. My parents had the same one.
There are ‘C’ and ’F’ arrows at the handle base, I surmise being the directions to crank it for coarse or for fine crushed ice.
@@For_What_It-s_Worth That's right. Notice also that all coffee grinders rotate horizontally, like pepper mills, not vertically.
I dont think that's a wick trimmer. you need a horizontal blade to trim a wick and this is vertical. My guess is it's an herb trimmer.
You hold the blade horizontal to trim the wick. The box on the side is used to snuff the candle.
@@lobstermash It is a candlewick trimmer and the box is for catching the trimmings.
21:28 Isn't it interesting how the person used a match to show scale for what turned out to be the personal/portable ashtray? I have one of these and I thought how they could have guessed if they just took in the big picture when they put it next to a match! They were so close!
God Im dumb, I only got 2 things right, the Arrowhead & the the desk.. very informative video.
19:15 I've seen coffee grinder versions of that
Haha, priceless... literally saw animal-themed foam door stoppers like the one at the beginning of this video, in a shop this afternoon :) Had various designs, all different animals, quite sure there was even a cow one similar to this :)
I didn’t know the size and guessed neck rest for baby car seat!
For anyone finding it hard to see how the last item is used as a juicer - the guy is holding it upside down. Those long prongs are the legs, and it's supposed to stand on them. They are so long so that the glass can fit under.
Very interesting thanks
The tachometer looks very similar to a wheelwright's measure for measuring the inside diameter of wagon wheels and works on the same principle.
The last juicer looks very handy
21:43 This is mostly played in merengue music. In salsa music a güiro made of gourd is usually played. 🇵🇷
The last item is the 'Juicy Salif', Designed by Philippe Starck in 1990, supposedly based on the shape of a squid.
Produced by Alessi. They were all the rage. Pretty expensive and pretty useless, as admittted by both Starck and Alessi. Starck is even quoted "not meant to squeeze lemons" but "to start conversations".
A status symbol of the nineties.
Jeepers I'm getting old. I knew the answers for a lot of these things. Granted, some where old when I was young, but the fact that I knew what they were surprised me.
1:11 The Chonta MUST be returned to Peru or to a Peruvian trained Shaman. It belongs with a healer & unless that is to be your specific path, I can only ask that you make an attempt to return it. If you are in 🇨🇦 there is a small Community of Yachakkuna (healers) here that are of the San Pedro region and not too difficult to find. Any Travel Agent that focuses on Peru will have no issues with finding you the correct person should you choose to take what I believe is the correct path however this is not mine to take and it is completely up to you. NO judgement, I can promise you that.🙏🏻from my heart, be well.
It sounds demonic and best left alone.
Quadrat sounds like it would involve four of something- not five circles?
The serrated device under the cabinet is for opening jars. You press the top of the jar into the corner and twist off the top
It is a jar opener for sure - Just like Peter said
Does it show what kind of person I am when I called the mint sauce ladle an absinthe spoon. 😂😂😂😂
Allium flower would make a very handy weapon 😮
Thyme trimmers? Trimmers? For thyme?
Holly Molly, I only guessed 4 out of the one million items Jeez, but any way thank you
Omg lol I thought the same but didn’t want to say so thank you lol
i was surprised at how many i knew i must be getting old
17:46. They are examples of ‘dibblers ”….used to make a hole in the soil to plant young plants or bulbs.
I thought that at first, but they're too nice for dibblers, which get pretty dirty and roughed up.
Another thought is, How does that polish leather?
Dibbers. These are usually plastic. Perhaps these are just classier ones.
I think this is a dribbler. They are nice when bought new. A friend of mine has one.
@@tatteredpaperandlace2905 Is it for planting or gardening in some way?
Omg I had a flash back. Lord I had a commodore 64 btw I'm old lol
10:50 I STG that's a C-Ring, for intimacy. Avoiding being explicit here lol. Probably not since it was a "promotional item" but still...
I can't believe someone didn't know what an arrow head is!!!
20:24 snuff box
19:45 That's the most evil-looking thing I've seen in a long time. Looks like a small monster from a horror movie.
I guessed wrong, I thought it was a 50 euro coin not a Roman oil container
6:24 I thought that cup was used by gentlemen to keep their moustaches dry when drinking a cup of tea....? They drink from the open side and their moustache rests dry on the perforated side...? :/ now I'm not so sure
Spoon things look like could squeeze tea bag
the thing under the cabinet is a jar opener. you slide the lid of the jar into the teeth bysliding it towward the skinniest part andd turning the jar. pop. bob's yer uncle.
I am so dumb: only got 2 right - the fly helicopter and the ash tray 😂
You didn't even recognize an arrowhead???
@@UguysRnuts no, I live in Australia - we only have boomerangs here 😊
@@poepiebuitendijk3988 Do you breakdance?
@@UguysRnuts heck no, don’t want to break, can’t dance and I believe it is embarrassing 😳
#1 is a jar opener. They work great. edit: it has been pointed out to me that I can't count. I meant #2 is a jar opener that installs under a cupboard and fits any jar.
No, it's a door stopper. It's made of foam rubber, way too soft to open a jar. I had one in my hand just today.
@@bioLarzen Yep, I meant #2. Thanks for the shout out
@@MollyBrown-f9i Oh, that one's defo a jar/bottle opener, for sure.
@17:01 Ab Exerciser...how?
Stabby thing on wheels lol
I know you made up stuff on a large percentage, but this was very entertaining.
Someone lives in Nashville and they don't know what an arrowhead is? Go home Yankee!! LOL
This is a pretty silly reply. You must not be aware of the Native American history in the north. I’m from northern MN and currently live in ND. My guess is that everyone here would also recognize what that was.
@@myruffleddreams1906 Sorry about that. I was being sarcastic. Sometimes when we write something, the sarcasm doesn't show.
21:20 snuff box.
A number of answers are wrong!
Looks like a baby toilet seat, car opener
Most of these just need a bit of thought to figure their uses. I know many just from being old but the others, just think a few minutes.
You would have to be truly thick to be an American and not recognise an arrow head. I am from New Zealand and recognised it instantly, and our native people, the Maori never used bows and l arrows !
I dont think that disc with holes is a frog. if it is on the bottom of the pot it cant get hold of the flower stems. I think it is a pot alarm. if you are waiting for water to boil and busy yourself doing something else, you put this in the pot and when the bubbles start, the disc will rattle in the pot telling you it is boiling.
It is a flower frog. It doesn't sit in the bottom of the vase. The vase has a lip around the top inner rim and the frog sits on that. Very familiar item from my childhood.
Could be
It’s a floral frog. I have one just like it.
Pot alarms don't usually have holes in them.
Definitely for arranging flowers in a vase.
Let’s hope the article called a delimbing tool is for large trees not human beings!
Japan cutting device for shaving Sasquatch
And then it's collected in packages like 13:34.
Cinnamon grinder
Arrowheads did not apper in the America's until about 600 years ago and were all the size of a thunbnail. The point shown was a javalin point and it was most likely NOT Hopewell.
Arrowheads in the Americas are much older than 600 years. Look up clovis points. They were used for hunting mammoths.
@@breeinatree4811 They weren't arrowheads, they were for spears and throwing javalins. EDUCATE yourself.
@donaldcarey114 ok, point taken. So, how do you account for the different arrowheads used for hunting birds at a 10,000 year old site in New Mexico? I worked on that site with the UTEP archeology department.
@@breeinatree4811 Few, if any sites in the Americas have produced arrowheads VERIFIED to be over 6-700 years old. I would like to see a link to the peer reviewsd paper the team you worked with published.
p.s. I have been picking up tools, points and pottery in the South Eastern U.S. for over 60 years (at first as a 4th grader, from ditch banks while walking to the school bus stop in Mecklinburg County, N.C.).
@@donaldcarey114 Educate YOURSELF. Start by learning to spell "Ammericas"(sic).
This looks like click and paste video. should explain bit better some of the photos some seems like half ass explanation.i like watching this kind of videos so go into more details. so it seems like the person making this video just click paste its. never does extra research. this is a cat this is a dog lol
But it _IS_ an axe--a _brush_ axe. Delimbing tool my ass...yes, you can trim limbs with them, but that's only one use--there are others.
I'm going to have to disagree with some of the answers. I'm 50 years old and I remember the objects being used for something else. 1349 I've seen people use that to separate the egg whites from the egg yolk, 1909 I've seen people use those to grind up soap for the laundry, 2039 I have seen people use those for snuff, four other sniffing substances.
1909 is definitely an ice crusher. I own one and have the original box.
Three strikes, you're out. LOL!
10:49 Looks like a "French tickler". Another kind of massager.