"What Is This Thing?” : Times People Stumbled Upon Mysterious Objects #9 

Some of these are wrong. The last item is not a rain gauge, it is a device used in relation to avalanches. Sets off a big boom to create a small avalanche to prevent a large one from forming.

The item at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="417">6:57</a> is a chestnut roaster. A bed warming pan isn't so deep and has a solid lid.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="628">10:28</a> Why the heck would someone leave RAT POISON at a PARTY?!

I want a glass-eye keyring!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="560">9:20</a> Not altogether certain about the capped gas lines. Our house is c.1900 with (functional) gas lighting, and I've never seen a capped line that looked like this. Looks to me rather more like a bell for summoning the servants, if you had any.

I knew about the pit mine. And suspected the card reader (having heard about the scam so often, but never having seen an actual one). What a laugh when the garter clips showed up! I'm of an age when garter belts were used by us women to hold up our stockings! Lots of fires in California, so I know of water reservoirs. Living out west, I knew the taco holder. Where did that laryngoscope come from! Ah yes, when bread didn't already some sliced! I remember when the store in our small town first got sliced bread, 1950s! How many folks are baking bread at home? It was a fad for awhile. I have a bread knife (not that fancy) but rarely use my knife when I do bake bread. I looked up flux.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="148">2:28</a> You're seeing these so often lately that i would expect everyone to know what they are! 😮 I have 4 of them hanging on a wall and fence. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="292">4:52</a> The flats where i used to live will be demolished and new construction will be build. They also first build a tower for bats and swifts.

Stocking clips made me feel old. Oooh yeah, I am old. Never mind.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="378">6:18</a> Quernstones didn't have hole in them. Looks more like the whorl from a spindle, in making thread before the days of spinning wheels and industrialization.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="220">3:40</a>. Ingredients: daily allowance of micro plastics!

Peopla are so ignorant @<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="693">11:33</a> SPIDER EGGS!

The pot with holes in it in Europe could be a chestnut roaster.

Also used to keep sheets on corners to not pull up.

I have a Mason Bee house I attached to a tree. Sadly I have not purchased the bees yet because they need alot of forage that we don't have at this time. Mason bees do not sting😊 It's amazing and kinda sad how many wonderful things end up tossed. And how many so-called "better" new fangled things that don't actually work better...or not at all. We've overrun our beautiful world with "trash" which isn't, in addition to the stuff that IS. I love this stuff. My first house was built in 1920. It was the most gorgeous place I've ever lived and tho it's been 24yrs I still think and dream of it often. Of course my first grandson was born when we lived there so there are many pics. It was a 1 and a half story Tudor bungalow type brick. All the built ins and a fireplace and lots of wood and stucco inside. Even an old coal shute! Milk box. Mail slot in the door which our dogs and little guy were scared of...at first. Ironing board in a cubbie! This house we bought later is from 1955. Better area even for us with what I made. It was just me and my kid in the first one. Got the big surprise at 37 that I was gonna be a gramma so we ended up buying this....thing. Nothing but a pain where we are stuck with this lemon. I see all these lovely old things and think of a house they would fit in nicely. Well not ALL of them LOL. But many. I so wish to spend my last years in a house like the first. It was really cheap back then too. Thank you again! Sorry about the book😊

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="106">1:46</a> Actually, this looks to me like a moth cocoon. I couldn’t say for sure from just the picture, but I’ve seen cocoons that look pretty much identical to this.

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="345">5:45</a> a fan , duh!

Recognised it immediately. Its a piecost. Whats a pie cost? Around $4 or $4.50 with sauce

I’m not a speed reader

That first one is definitely not from the UK, we don't even know what the sun is.

I have one of those leather punches. Used it a few times.

I dontwantto tend. I'm eating my supper!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="982">16:22</a> Not sure about using this for making butter. The milk will drip through the gaps between the boards, and turning the drum will cause considerable splashing.

I spotted the photo of the open pit mine immediately - lived in Phoenix most of my life and have seen them down around Globe- Miami area! Personally I hate open pit mining. One of the 4 C’s of Arizona - Copper!!!

The explanations of what the items are purpose for too long to read. And the slide flips to another in the last sentence

Many, MANY wrong answers to the question what is it. Most people just make a wild guess, it doesn’t make it true….

This photo series was copied from a website called Bored Panda.

Pretty sure the small white spheres in the window corner are BBs for airsoft guns...