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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: rustyric on September 05, 2020, 01:57:18 PM

Title: Whats is this springy punchy thingy ?
Post by: rustyric on September 05, 2020, 01:57:18 PM: Purchased at my local flea market just because I liked it ! I think its made in Germany as it marked DR. Could it be something to do with tagging cows ears ?

(https://i.imgur.com/or2yelY.jpg?1)
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Post by: lptools on September 05, 2020, 02:22:08 PM: Hello, Ric. That is a neat looking tool!! Are there legible numbers on the handle??
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Post by: rustyric on September 05, 2020, 03:03:13 PM: No sorry to blurred
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Post by: rustyric on September 05, 2020, 03:08:53 PM: By a strange coincidence I purchased this book at the same flea market on the same day with a picture of a man holding the mystery tool on the front cover !

I though this is going to be easy, just look in the book. Unfortunately it doesn't say !!

<img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ECbuCA6zL._SX345_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" alt="Bygones 5: Amazon.co.uk: Joice, Dick: 9780851151342: Books"/>
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Post by: Northwoods on September 05, 2020, 03:15:07 PM: That fellow looks like he is stumped too.
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Post by: rustyric on September 05, 2020, 03:25:57 PM: Apparently his name is Dick Joice and he had a t.v. program way back in the 1970's on Anglia TV (Regional UK TV channel for East Anglia), called "Bygones" and every week he had a mystery item competition, no prizes for guessing what it was in the episode in the photo !
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Post by: rustyric on September 06, 2020, 04:24:39 PM: So does it look as if I have beaten you ?
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Post by: amecks on September 07, 2020, 06:22:40 AM: Not yet Ric! First we're going to request more photos from different angles, as well as a detailed description of the movement when you squeeze the handles together.
Thanks.
Al
It does look to me as if it is meant to fold and then punch a hole or at least dimple a piece of metal.
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Post by: rustyric on September 08, 2020, 01:48:43 AM: Ok I will take some more photos today and upload them
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Post by: Danks on September 08, 2020, 04:49:22 AM: I have seen one a long time ago, and i believe that it was for inserting nails/pins and bending them over to form a loop,for lacing up shoes.
Cheers
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Post by: rustyric on September 08, 2020, 06:22:04 AM: More photos

(https://i.imgur.com/rpeeGTZ.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/ykIXFJF.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/HToD9SJ.jpg)
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Post by: wvtools on September 08, 2020, 11:55:25 AM: Quote from: Danks on September 08, 2020, 04:49:22 AM
I have seen one a long time ago, and i believe that it was for inserting nails/pins and bending them over to form a loop,for lacing up shoes.
Cheers

I was thinking something along the same lines -- looks like a shoe button, hook, or eyelet tool.
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Post by: Danks on September 08, 2020, 04:16:27 PM: I have found a couple of similar looking items on picclick UK, both indicate shoe makers tool

https://picclick.co.uk/Antique-Vintage-Shoemaker-Leather-Working-Cobblers-Tools-20-254638107598.html#&gid=1&pid=11
https://picclick.co.uk/Vintage-Shoe-Makers-Cobblers-Leather-Worker-Saddlery-264416893194.html
Cheers
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Post by: skipskip on September 08, 2020, 09:57:28 PM: Fits the tool collectors adage:

All unknown tools are either nutcrackers or leather working tools
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Post by: rustyric on September 09, 2020, 05:50:50 AM: So it looks as if its leather work related - however what is it used for ?
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Post by: rustyric on September 14, 2020, 03:01:25 PM: So looks like I have definitely beaten you this time :smiley:
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Post by: Papaw on September 14, 2020, 04:09:27 PM: I think the tool in the Ebay link is it.
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Post by: rustyric on September 15, 2020, 12:04:58 PM: Yes I agree its the same tool - however I still cant find out whats it for ?
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Post by: Bill Houghton on September 15, 2020, 07:41:36 PM: Quote from: skipskip on September 08, 2020, 09:57:28 PM
Fits the tool collectors adage:

All unknown tools are either nutcrackers or leather working tools
except when they're saw sets or tire fixing tools.
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Post by: rustyric on September 25, 2020, 05:27:01 AM: So it looks like I have partly beaten you - We now know it something to do with leather work, but its specific purpose is still a mystery !
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Post by: rustyric on May 04, 2021, 09:45:22 AM: So I have returned to check this post after 6 months and I have still beaten you !
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Post by: rustyric on May 11, 2021, 02:34:21 AM: I think it maybe a cow ear tagger ?
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Post by: lptools on May 26, 2021, 02:34:29 PM: I think I found it, but am I unable upload any photos or links!! It is on the Internet Archives in a Thomas A Mansfield catalog; "Hercules Button Pliers" . Could someone try to post either the photo of the page, or post the link? Thanks, Lou
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Post by: Bill Houghton on May 26, 2021, 04:44:35 PM: Quote from: skipskip on September 08, 2020, 09:57:28 PM
Fits the tool collectors adage:

All unknown tools are either nutcrackers or leather working tools
Depends where you hang out. Over on Old Woodworking machines, the consensus for small stuff is saw sets or tire repair thingies. Larger items are generally assumed to be associated with cream separators.
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Post by: skipskip on May 26, 2021, 04:52:38 PM: HAW!!! saw sets are easy once you learn the 300 basic types

Quote from: Bill Houghton on May 26, 2021, 04:44:35 PM
Quote from: skipskip on September 08, 2020, 09:57:28 PM
Fits the tool collectors adage:

All unknown tools are either nutcrackers or leather working tools
Depends where you hang out. Over on Old Woodworking machines, the consensus for small stuff is saw sets or tire repair thingies. Larger items are generally assumed to be associated with cream separators.
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Post by: mikeswrenches on May 27, 2021, 11:54:10 AM: From the Mansfield catalog.

https://archive.org/details/ThomasAMansfieldCo1909/page/n27/mode/2up
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Post by: lptools on May 27, 2021, 11:56:36 AM: Hello, Mike. Thanks for the help!! Someday i will figure out the technology aspect of tool collecting :grin:
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Post by: rustyric on June 02, 2021, 10:43:36 AM: Well done maximum kudos to you from the UK - a button fastener ! I would have never guessed.