Author Topic: Any ideas what this is? (Read 481 times)

G0ALY · « **on:** August 15, 2005, 06:58:45 PM »

Hello there,

I have a puzzle maybe you can help with. I purchased these at a recent estate auction. Even the auctioneer had no idea what they were. Perhaps someone out there knows something about them.

The leather parts 3 & ½ inches long by 2 inches across. There are two flowers impressed in the front. The back is stitched together with just enough room for a pencil to slide through.

The weights or hooks are 1 inch long.

These two items may have nothing to do with each other, but they were in the same old bag when I bought them.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** August 15, 2005, 07:01:11 PM »

Very rare and primitive athletic cups. The hook was used to hold them in place, there is a hole...well, I think you can use your imagination.

Anyway, this was when football was at its finest, they wore leather helmuts, minimal pads, leather athletic protection (pictured) and they walked to school 5 miles each way, in a snowstorm...UPHILL BOTH WAYS!

Nomde · « **Reply #2 on:** August 15, 2005, 07:03:07 PM »

Testicles?

Seriously, i've seen a cane made from a bull's dried noodle.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #3 on:** August 15, 2005, 07:07:04 PM »

Seriously though, whats the diameter of the loop at the end of it? I would guess its some sort of home-made crop (the end, without the handle) for a horse.

G0ALY · « **Reply #4 on:** August 15, 2005, 07:22:57 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Seriously though, whats the diameter of the loop at the end of it? I would guess its some sort of home-made crop (the end, without the handle) for a horse.

The loop is 1/2 inch diameter.

Simaril · « **Reply #5 on:** August 15, 2005, 08:31:41 PM »

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Originally posted by Nomde
Testicles?

Seriously, i've seen a cane made from a bull's dried noodle.

I knew a retired meatcutter who had the orthopedic surgeons give him back his hip joint after the replacement -- and he made a cane out of it too. Rested his hand right on the knob of his very own femoral head...

mosgood · « **Reply #6 on:** August 15, 2005, 09:00:21 PM »

WOW! I'm having flashbacks of watching "The Liers Club" as a kid

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #7 on:** August 15, 2005, 09:11:12 PM »

I'm thinking this whole thing is a rigging system for a large tent.

The hook things are for the tightening of guy ropes. You could run a line thru and tie the end of a line in the hole, then use the hook part as pulley in a block and tackle type of arrangement. A taught line hitch finishes it off.

The apple looking things are reinforcements for where two poles come together. The socket holds the vertical pole, the two leafs wrap around the horizontal. Then the poles are lashed together.

Dago · « **Reply #8 on:** August 15, 2005, 09:18:10 PM »

Antique curtain tie back rope ends and curtain hooks.

Hawklore · « **Reply #9 on:** August 15, 2005, 09:21:38 PM »

Leather bicycle seat covers...

Got no idea what the iron is..

RTSigma · « **Reply #10 on:** August 15, 2005, 11:24:49 PM »

DUH, you put ice cream in them and the hooks are to hang the ice cream holders on your belt for ready-made ice cream holding.

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 15, 2005, 11:46:06 PM »

I dont know but u see it alot in the fetish scene.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #12 on:** August 15, 2005, 11:58:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Seriously though, whats the diameter of the loop at the end of it? I would guess its some sort of home-made crop (the end, without the handle) for a horse.

Oh I think its for a crop too..
but not the kind for a horse.

You may not wanna know LOL

Furball · « **Reply #13 on:** August 16, 2005, 02:02:12 AM »

gun puppets!

put the barrel through the hole and turn your killing machine into a great toy for all ages!

Hangtime · « **Reply #14 on:** August 16, 2005, 02:14:33 AM »

LOL.. condoms!!!!!!! The hooks are for teabaggin.