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What are these? - 4/8/2006 3:26:00 PM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: offline Here are some unexpected discoveries that I need help figuring out what they were used for. The first is a knob for something- it still turns, and at one point the word normal will show up in the little window there in the middle. Any idea what this would have been used on? Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: What are these? - 4/8/2006 3:27:55 PM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: offline The next object is a circular ring, about three inces in diameter. It seems to be made of bone, and there is a groove all of the way around it. Any ideas? Attachment (1) (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 2

RE: What are these? - 4/8/2006 3:29:45 PM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: offline The last are some broken pieces of decorative glass. Hard to explain, but its aqua, wavy, and has diagonal lines in alternating directions each groove. Would this have been used in a window, or for something else? Attachment (1) (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 3

RE: What are these? - 4/8/2006 3:30:39 PM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: offline Another look- do you other diggers dig up decorative glass like this occasionally? Attachment (1) (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 4

RE: What are these? - 4/8/2006 11:42:19 PM    Python   Posts: 128 Joined: 11/11/2003 From: Alabama Status: offline the glass looks like part of an old washboard. My mom had one of like that (complete) hanging in our kitchen for years. The other two I'm not sure of, maybe a bracelet for the one and some sort of throttle for the other? Not sure, but the washboard thing I am pretty sure about (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 5

RE: What are these? - 4/9/2006 10:14:39 PM    huffmnd   Posts: 372 Joined: 8/8/2005 From: Sparta Tennessee Status: offline The glass does look like the glass from an old washboard I have seen several of them over the years and it seems to match up to them pretty well. The metal thing beats the tar out of me I couldn't even begin to guess on it. The other one does look like a bracelet but you said it was just 3 inches in diameter a person would have really small hands for it to be a bracelet. Where did you come across it if you don't mind my asking?Look at this it may help on the glass.http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-PRIMATIVE-DEPRESSION-ERA-GLASS-WOOD-WASHBOARD_W0QQitemZ7405857181QQcategoryZ1217QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting < Message edited by huffmnd -- 4/9/2006 10:40:08 PM > (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 6

RE: What are these? - 4/10/2006 5:05:23 AM    IRISH   Posts: 1238 Joined: 11/23/2002 From: cockatoo Australia Status: offline The ring is probably a serviette ring (napkin ring in the US), I've seen a few made of bone and ivory. (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 7

RE: What are these? - 4/10/2006 2:46:44 PM    Toxic_Waste   Posts: 60 Joined: 5/24/2005 Status: offline That first object kinda reminds me of something that might control the heat on a pressure-cooker-type of vessel, but this is just a wild guess. The glass interests me, because I have found pieces exactly like those. The thing is, the ones I have were found way up in the high country in very rugged terrain that was not easily accessible (that's putting it midly). They were found in the dump of what was an old logging camp. It's amazing to think any of those guys cared about washing their clothes, but perhaps they did! I can just picture them squatting over a washtub singing, "This is the way we wash our clothes, wash our clothes, wash our clothes ..." _____________________________ All men are cremated equal (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 8

RE: What are these? - 4/10/2006 4:45:09 PM    capsoda Posts: 8084 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline The brass thing is a reostat off of an electric motor like an industrial sewing machine. Python is right about the glass and the bone ring came out of my nose a few years back.LoL Probably an ivory napkin ring. Ivory is rare these days with the government ban on it. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 9

RE: What are these? - 4/11/2006 12:43:54 AM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: offline Wow thanks so much for the help! Everything was found in a rural farm dump, so the sewing machine knob and washboard definately make sense. Thanks for the link to an Ebay washboard. I'm positive thats what it was. I definately never would have figured that out without this forum. (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 10

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