What is it? Set 379

[Rob H.]

Yet another set of items has been posted:

[Alexander Thesoso]

For the third week, I have no useful guesses. While 2185 is some kind of automobile accessory lamp, but I have no useful guess about its specific function.

So why am I posting this? When I saw 2188, I burst out laughing. Many years ago, I saw a cartoon. I don't remember where, possibly the New Yorker. I also don't remember the cartoonist, but it was someone well-known. Possibly Larsen or Chas Addams. The cartoon was of a Dog Carrier. I think that was the caption. A guy was carrying a dog, by a handle, with a hook in the dog's mouth and a screw clamp stuck in the other end. Exactly like the top two things in the picture.

[Dave Baker]

socket.

[David Billington]

2188 early cat carrier > Yet another set of items has been posted:

[George W Frost]

2185: an auto trouble lamp you plug it into the parking lamp socket

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

"George W Frost" fired this volley in news:QG3ep.12399$ [e-mail]:

Or the cigar lighter hole...

LLoyd

[Bill]

2183 is actually a fly box for holding a fisherman's "wet" flies, not "dry flies" as the mechanism would smash the hackle on dry flies. Wet flies are flat.

Bill

[Ralph]

2189 Maybe a gas stove burner

[jim]

It appears to be some kind of gas burner, but may not be for a cook stove. It looks like the air intake manifold is designed to hook up to piping to bring in combustion air from some distance. The pictures are pretty lousy so its is hard to tell.

-jim

[Bill]

2186-- for baling hay???

Bill

[Roger]

2185: Trouble light used in older multi-engined aircraft. Think WWII era.

[Rob H.]

Generally correct

Sounds like a good use for it!

[Rob H.]

Nope, if you look closely at the patent seen in the photo you can see it's for use with something smaller than a hay bale.

[Rob H.]

Correct, I was told it was for use by an auto mechanic and that it was plugged into a light socket. I had asked him if you could plug it into the cigarette lighter but he said it was used before cars had lighters in them. Don't know when cars first got lighters and if that is true or not. I'm sure it could have been used on airplanes as someone else suggested.

Rob

[Rob H.]

Looks like you're right, half way down the page at the link below I found this quote:

"Individual dry fly compartments each has its own spring-loaded window. Wet fly Clips will not rust."

[Bill]

2187 -- A key???

Bill

[Robert]

2185 Car Drop light plug into cigarette lighter 2186 Hay bailer 2187 Pasta spoon 2188 Clamp

2189 welded Art

2190 Sword medallion

[George W Frost]

Could be Lloyd, but it appears there is a lug on the side of the plug, therefore, I do not think it would be suitable for a cigarette lighter socket

[Rob H.]

This one came in a leather pouch and could be described as a tool, the hole has a sharp edge on the inside.

[DoN. Nichols]

2185) Looks like an old automobile trouble light, designed to plug into a cigarette lighter outlet.

The hook keeps it from sliding away from where it is being used.

What is not clear is why the mechanical shutter instead of a switch in the cord.

Of course -- it could be a timing light, missing perhaps the part to fire the bulb -- but the bulb sort of looks like an incandescent -- though it might not be the original lamp.

2186) If the diagonal part between 3 and 15 on the drawing is a spring or a rubber band, then it is some kind of shock mount, perhaps for something like transporting nitroglycerine or some similarly sensitive product.

If there were a pointer of some sort, I would consider it to be possibly a form of scale instead.

2187) Looks like a tool for manipulating the grate in a woodstove, or something similar. 2188) Well ... the central object is a Starrett mechanical tachometer which you have put up before. But I presume you are asking about the wood object just above it instead.

That looks like something for supporting a workpiece between centers -- but since there is not a thread on the shaft of the T-handled part, nor a visible thumbscrew for locking it down, instead I will suggest that it is for pushing a cork into a style of bottle with a depressed center.

The fact that it is displayed with the tach and some small C-clamps in interesting, and calls into question what kind of museum display it happens to be.

2189) Way too blurred to really make a guess at all. Sorry. 2190) Slips on over a small pipe. Might serve to keep rain out of an exhaust pipe until opened. Perhaps if I looked up Crestmark, I would learn more -- or perhaps not.

Now to see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.