"What Is This Thing?” : Times People Stumbled Upon Mysterious Objects #3 

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The Viking chair looks more like it could be a rudder board (Lee or dagger).

The umbilical clamp is the silliest idea. They are not what they seem. They are embroidery scissors with the birds beak replaced. After 40 years I should know!!

A "flee market "??????? 😅😅😅😅😅

Thank you for clarifying- i was wondering if xtian was some dynasty in china I did not know! lol

9:01 specifically Napoleon II, I believe.

4:02 Another video said those were final apprentice engravings to move up to journeyman. Kinda like a final exam.

Interesting. In England if artefacts are found which could be historically significant they have to handed into their national museum for authentication. Here in Scotland we are obliged by law to hand over artefacts to 'Treasure Trove ' at the National Museum of Scotland. If the find is historically important, very old etc, its kept in a museum in Scotland and if worth any money, the finder would be granted half. There was a huge find of silverware called the Galloway Hoard a few years back, the finder and owner of the land both were granted a good amount of money, the artefacts are in the national museum of Scotland in Edinburgh and are amazing. If you find something in your garden same applies I think.

That soap collector thing looks like a chestnut roaster that you put in a fire.

What is the clip of music played with the whale oil lamp? I've heard it on several of your videos, which I enjoy very much, by the way.

11:01 love how they don't tell you what it is, just what it is made of

5:33 NOT a soap saver. it's for doing dishes (or also perhaps washing clothing too, but less likely), where yes you would put the bar of sunlight soap or similar in the container and swish in hot water. It's not for saving scraps of soap tho! Usually soap bits would be grated or boiled down into "soft soap", and used to wash hands or delicate clothing by using pumps of it just like modern liquid hand soap. Source: I still wash my dishes with sunlight soap and my mother has made soft soap from scraps my whole life 😂

Perhaps the wheat on bed frames is symbolic for being ‘fruitful’ and multiplying. Farms once had to grow their own workers to take over the property and support the parents!!!

7:22 It's a foot-powered dental drill, more specifically.

7:55 it's a small metal replica of a massive stone "sunstone" aka aztec calendar stone. It was only a few years pre columbian and was "rediscovered" in 1790.

5:50 My father used to use a soap holder like that for doing the dishes, as he hated detergent and believed it was carcinogenic.

It is an arrow head.

I looked up tree branch muddler, but the info was unsatisfyingly skimpy. I got the gist, but wanted more detail. Sigh.

How do I submit something for identification??

No at 3:57 they are NOT book cover plates!!! They are an engraver's journeyman example to show that they are sufficiently qualified to enter the appropriate guild, most likely. Books never had fully metal covers in Europe, they were bound fabric, vellum, wood, horn/ivory/bone or even paper. But the whole thing was never a precious metal like silver. And look, there are several different crests present. It's traditional and the lack of patina makes it supicious as to whether it's a very recent creation. No earlier than the 1820's or 30's I should think, but could be as recent as the 1950's or maybe even 60's. Would need to be examined by a professional. Source: my dad and grandfather are both professors of history, and my dad is very knowledgeable about the history of guilds and other genealogical-related practices.

11:56 actually this looks more authentically Roman than a cheap georgian knockoff. I hope he contacts an archeologist, cos the surrounding "stone" looks like roman concrete

Found spiritual or indigenous objects should be returned to the place where they were found. It's not cool to mess with those things. And it's honorable to return them.

XTIAN!!!? You mean Christian, don't you?