For this month’s Crocodile mystery, we ask you to identify this object:
And yes, the lack of scale in the photograph is deliberate. We don’t want to make it too easy.
For this month’s Crocodile mystery, we ask you to identify this object:
And yes, the lack of scale in the photograph is deliberate. We don’t want to make it too easy.
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It looks like a tuning ‘hammer’ for a keyboard instrument, a harpsichord, a virginals or a fortepiano but is perhaps too late for the Elizabethan period.
A radiator key
Looks like a quoin key to lock up a chase for printing?
I think so too! A key for locking quoins!
Prior to about 1850, quoins were just wood wedges tapped in place with a hammer. There is also a bit missing if that is a quoin key.
It’s obviously a corkscrew that has opened so many bottles that its threads have been worn smooth.
a clock key
It looks like a key for winding a clock or pocket watch.
It’s a cutting tool for putting a clean hole in leather, rubber or similar material. Notice how the cutting edge is worn. Also, the discoloration about a third of the way up from the cutting edge. Most likely caused by debris from the materials the cutting punch cut through. Do I win a crocodile?
Appears to be a hole punch, for putting holes in rubber.