All About Pocket Knives

I've seen similar bone items in ladies' sewing kits.
Charlie

Charlie is right.
It is not ivory but bone.
It is a Victorian carved and incised bone sewing awl.

JW~

What, no "z's" in Mizzizzippi??? What about the Hozpitalz??

What ever it is, Scott. It's pretty doggone neat.

SCOTT.......I DUNNO .....
BUT I SHOWED TIFF....SHE SAID IT IS A "SPIKE" THAT GOES TO A WOMENS HAIR CLIP.....MISSING IS A OVAL DISC THAT IS CURVED...AND HAS 2 HOLES FOR THE SPIKE TO PASS THRU AND HOLD THE HAIR UP..........KINDA OF A ASIAN DESIGN THANG SHE SAID.......

The world is going to hell in a handbasket and O'Bummer just HAS to go on vacation.

How would the world look without a strong USA? About like it does!

Check out this blast from the past.....
A vintage Friction Toy Gun.....
Remember, you squeeze the trigger repeatedly and red sparkles appears in the barrel...
You guys remember, right

.................sure do!!!!................ ................

What Is This?

This is for all you old timers, do you remember what this is?


Someone should get this fairly easily.
They were pretty common 40 years ago.

Scale weight???

Great guess Glenn, but no correct.

It has a dual purpose and the weight of the item supports one of those purposes, but it has nothing to do with scales. However, back-in-the-day you would find this in the vicinity of measuring devices.

Dale, is that about two inches across?

Somehow I have the feeling that once the true identity of that item is revealled I'm going to smack myself in the forehead and say " Heck, I knew that!"........... In the meantime, I'm sitting here clueless.

FRJ wrote:Dale, is that about two inches across?

I don't have it in front of me now, but I would estimate it is about 3" in diameter.

Shucks, I thought someone would get this by now!
Remember real service stations. where they washed your windshield, checked your oil and your tires with every tank if gas?
And when the guys weren't pumping gas they were in the shop working on cars?

This is from those good old days! It is the plug and weight for the end of the bell hose.
When your car ran over the hose it compressed the air in the hose and rang a bell in the shop, alerting the attendants who were working on cars or cleaning up the shop that you had just driven up to the pumps.

I cannot remember the last time I saw a gas station with a bell hose across the driveway, so I was surprised when I pulled into a local Texaco station and looked down and saw this laying beside the pump.
I asked the kid if he knew what it was and he said he had no idea.
I told him what it was. He that it was "Cool." I asked him if I could have it, he said, “Sure. I have no idea where it came from and we use it."

I remember the "bell hose" but never paid any attention to what sealed the end of it. Neat piece

tjmurphy wrote:I remember the "bell hose" but never paid any attention to what sealed the end of it. Neat piece

What T.J. said.

I only recall a "plug" of some sort in the ends of bell hoses, not a clamp.

Us Southerners kept it simple.

Charlie Noyes

RobesonsRme.com wrote:I only recall a "plug" of some sort in the ends of bell hoses, not a clamp.

Us Southerners kept it simple.

Charlie Noyes

The plug was most common; usually just a bolt the proper size pushed into the end of the hose to keep the air inside. But if you had rough entrance to the pumps like gravel or uneven pavement some of the tires of heaver vehicles like trucks or faster moving cars would sometimes pick up the hose and whip it up and hit the vehicle. The weighted end prevents the hose from being picked up by the tires.

I grew up working in a service station and when I saw the hose weight it brought back lots of good memories.

The service station where I spent so much "quality time" had bell hoses which were guaranteed to ring as soon as I had my hands covered in grease. They didn't have those weights on the ends however, so from time to time I'd have to reposition them after they'd gotten moved about. As I recall they just had a plugged end but no wieghts.

I can remember the hoses being out of position and not stretched straight across the drive as it should have been. Looking at the plug, don't you suppose the hole was to anchor it to the drive way? A spike for asphalt, dirt or gravel or a screw into an anchor or shield in a concrete drive? I would have never guessed what the purpose of that piece .
Treefarmer

It does have a hole in it that you can drive a spike through.

The hoses without the weights were always getting moved around.
Just one more little duty of the attendant; keep the hoses straight.

Very cool and unusual item, Dale. One of my many jobs while I was working my way through college was "Petroleum Installation Engineer" at a Conoco station. It had bell hoses. I don't recall how the hoses were anchored but they must have been because I don't recall them ever needing to be straightened. That was a loooong time ago though!

Ken