Re: What is it? LII

Mar 10, 2005 2 Replies
288 Exposure meter
290 is a ceramic insulator
291 is an eraser shield. Besides drafting, is was used for typing--in the days before whiteout and deletion paper.
293 looks like a collectible piece of barbed wire
295 is a corrugated fastener--they were driven into the end grain of wooden boards to hold them together. A very common use was on the end boards of wooden produce boxes. These used to be called by a politically incorrect, offensive name

One you had recently, that I no longer see--an iron meteorite. I ran across one for sale at a flea market last weekend.


And what name might that be? You can rot13 it, if you're worried about the Morals Police.

Thanks, Rich

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