Guess what this tool was designed for?? Win a cutlery item

[galvanic1882]

btrwtr you are the winner!!! They are Sardine can openers!!!

Check out item number 147.

http://www.greatplanestrading.com/EAIA14/EAIA14.htm

[cato]

i dont know ALEX, might have to accept the can opener response,

by contestant

[Rookie]

Cool, I like those "guess what it is" threads. As long as I get to know the answer after everyone guesses wrong.

[FRJ]

http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kni ... &start=105

I posted one similar a year ago. Different mfg. Look on page 8 if your curious.
I never found out what it was until now.
Thanks for posting that, Mike.

[#goldpan]

That was cool

Randy

[RobesonsRme.com]

Florist shears for cutting flower stems.

Charlie

[ScoutKnives]

Wayne figured it out five post back

Florist shears for cutting flower stems.

Charlie

[RobesonsRme.com]

Yeah, I completely missed the second page of responses.

Getting old is not for the aged.

Charlie Noyes

[wlf]

0nly for the young.

[btrwtr]

Well by some luck I was able to guess what this strange tool was.

True to his word Mike came through and delivered the goods and the P.O. brought me this little gem just the other day. Not quite as obscure as the OP tool but many people tend to misidentify what these are. I remember one particular antique dealer getting rather irate with me for telling him he didn't have an antique, civil war surgical field instrument.

I have owned a few of these along the way and do like them. This ROGERS CUTLERS TO HER MAJESTY with smooth bone handle is no exception. I believe the "Her Majesty" stamp would date this eraser to Queen Victoria and make it a c. 1837-1901 cutlery item.

Great little ink eraser and much appreciated Mike!

[FRJ]

Lyle, I have a few too and like them also.
Here's one I got two days ago. Made by Curley Cutlery Co. New York

[steve99f]

How did these work? Didn't the inks back then absorb into the paper but lay on top? TIA.

[FRJ]

My understanding, which is based on nothing more than hearsay, is that they were used to remove ink from vellum. Back in the day.

[steve99f]

Thanks Joe. I think I know what that is but I should check with Google.

I found out I didn't know what vellum was. Its calfskin treated and then used as paper way back when. What I thought was vellum was that black kraft photo album paper.

[FRJ]

Steve, I'm not sure my information is valid, but that is what I recall.
I hope others will contribute.

[wlf]

Thanks Mike for the fun and Wayne for showing us. Anything Rodgers is very collectible.

Wish I had a Rodgers farmers jack. I grin great big.

Hey it's me not Wayne. I laugh out loud.

[galvanic1882]

Glad you guys had fun with this I did too. I have another one coming before the end of the week. Just need time to dig it out of the boxes I still have to unpack since my move.

Yes Lyle I wish you had that one too!!!!