What is it? Set 335

This is partially correct, it is a weapon, for use by the police, and it does have a wrist strap but pushing the button doesn't cause anything to extend.

Rob

It lulls the criminal by appearing to be a harmless truncheon. Imagine her surprise when she is maced!

That's it! It's a tear gas billy club.

Rob

Nonny

1926: a quiver? (that's an ammo clip for a bow) It'd have to be a short bow, maybe a Mongol-horde equestrian model, or a crossbow, for such a short case.

I Think that you will find that it is not a slot in the end but it is a split all the way down the tube

Great, thanks for the patent, I had found one for a similar item but yours looks more like the one in the photo on the web site.

There were a couple of tough ones in this set but they've all been answered correctly this week:

At one time, my cousin was a Sheriff and had a baton that was somewhat similar. It was an electric baton- the grandfather of a Taser. What I recall in seeing it was that the button was a dummy and that the baton was activated by squeezing the sides.

Doesn't the button unlock the thing and allow a flick of the wrist (while the button is pressed) to extend it to working length?

Enjoy, DoN.

I'm not sure since I didn't push the button (though I was tempted to push it), I just figured the button was for discharging the tear gas, so maybe it does extend. I've seen two of these and both looked like the one in my photos (not extended).

Also, I changed my answer for the second gas pump symbol, the first one, with the arrow, I'm sure indicates the tank location. The second one, without the arrow, the pump hose location does not always correspond with the location of the tank, only on some vehicles.

Rob

Its old news, but I think I found a good pictire of #1893 from a few weeks back.

--riverman

--riverman

Thanks! I'll pass this on to the owner of it.

Rob

Nah, you're thinking of the collapsible batons. They are strictly a friction device. Hollow tube held in the "ready position" by an internal spring thingy in the end cap. A flick of the wrist deploys it to full length where it's locked in place by means of the mechanical tapered fit.

The only way to collapse it after that is a hard tap downward on a hard (concrete or marble) surface.

(or a skull?)

My suggestion was before I knew that it was a tear gas dispenser. Given that, that is just what I would expect it to do, and there is no need to extend as a collapsable baton.

O.K. Given the appearance in the photos, I was thinking that it was a LCD indicator on the instrument panel, which might indicate where to push a button to open the gas lid from inside -- and perhaps to tell you that the gas lid was still open as you drive off. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.