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Mask extender. You hook the ear loops of a disposable or cloth mask into two of the hooks, and put it around the back of your head so that you can wear the mask for extended periods without hurting your ears.
Olyshish is right. It's a hair-bun maker. You slide your ponytail through the slit and curve the foam bit around and it makes fabulous hairstyles.
It is a warmer for... well a male sex toy.
https://www.amazon.com/Warmer-Applicable-Masturbation-Masturbate-Sides/dp/B00KL4MPX0
It's The History of the National Security State by Gore Vidal
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https://www.amazon.com/Vidal-History-National-Security-State/dp/1494887991
It is apparently a Talisman of Venus Love Pentacle Key of Solomon Seal Pendant Hermetic Enochian Kabbalah Pagan Wiccan Jewelry according to someone selling one on as a necklace on Amazon. (There is a really long description there as well...and some really bizarre questions and reviews.)
Stainless Steel Soap Wash Your Hands to Remove Odors. Restore The Original Taste,Deodorant Metal soap https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GSYM5HS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_p7bbEbT57RMH2
Stainless steel soap. Supposed to get rid of odors.
It's a "Garlic Twist" - you peel and smoosh a garlic clove and put it in there to finely mince it up for cooking in a dish.
And as other commenters have mentioned, can be used for more recreational purposes
Air fresheners, made by Fresh Products.
Available on Amazon if you really like them.
Also known as a Yokohama pneumatic fender
It holds the back part of the straps together in the middle. It can make regular bras work with racerback type tops, can also provide additional tightening.
This looks like the Dyson blow dryer stand/holder accessory
This is the one from Amazon (non Dyson brand - replica) : https://www.amazon.com/Supersonic-Basstop-Aluminum-Diffuser-Nozzles/dp/B07928M84Y
I found it!
Gore Vidal History of The National Security State: Includes Vidal on America https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1494887991/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_okZRCbFG8NG2R
Interesting choice of arrest book, I have a follow up for anyone reading, what was Assange shouting as he was arrested?
Sky News are reporting he’s telling the U.K. to refuse the Trump Administration with large portions of what he is saying labels as “inaudible”.
Wouldn’t that statement go against the whole point of Wikileaks who leaked Hillary’s emails?
It‘s a brick laying hammer. The toothed side is for fitting the bricks. You hammer around the brick in one line on all sides. After some hits a part falls off. As it is with golden spray paint it may have been for decoration or lying the cornerstone.
https://www.amazon.com/Picard-0027600-Masons-toothed-pattern/dp/B0001JZX4S#
Edit: Link to Amazon
You can search a toothed mason’s hammer.
its sideways. also it's probably in Arabic. google has a translation app that lets you take pictures and translate them https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate&hl=en_US
Those are for taking the tire out of a bike wheel: https://www.amazon.com/Tragoods-Premium-Bicycle-Changing-Stainless/dp/B07GFPVT7C/
It looks to me like water absorbing crystals used in potting soil to conserve moisture. I really don't think this is life of any kind
It's Japanese rice crackers Age Ichiban(揚一番) by Kameda.
Ref.: https://www.amazon.com/kameda-Ichiban-Rice-Crackers-5-5oz/dp/B004UU2FL8
They are a new trend of like therapy toys. It's basically fake bubble wrap where you can pop them all and then turn it over and do it again. They're made of silicon and are all the rage right now. Basically the new fidget spinner.
It's a recirculating pump with a timer. It's so you don't have to wait for hot water nearly as long. It cycles periodically to keep the water in the hot water lines hot. Typically put in bathrooms far away from the water heater so you don't have to wait minutes for your shower to get hot.
https://www.diamondcertified.org/hot-water-recirculation-pump-benefits/
Looks like you have something very similar to this model: https://www.amazon.com/Laing-LHB08100092-AutoCirc-Recirculation-Timer/dp/B0046MDAK0
Finally something I know!! It’s called a snake cube and you can’t find it on amazon.
Snake Cube: Handmade & Organic Serpent Cube 3D Brain Teaser Wooden Puzzle for Adults from SiamMandalay with Free SM Gift Box(Pictured) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FQTO712/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_bMD9zbESQVCAY
That's a Match Box similar to this one. You can load an entire cardboard box of large kitchen matches into the hopper -- sometimes including the box.
Not so much anymore: Mazaeus Saffron, Premium Saffron Threads (Grade 1), All-Red Saffron Spice, Highest Quality Persian Saffron for Culinary Use (2 grams) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KJSGGWF/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Kwb.Db5RKV353
I kinda wonder if the finally mechanized the harvesting. Hand-harvesting was always the reason for the price.
Looks like an adapter from USB to the XBox 360 controller breakaway connector. The round connector (breakaway) attaches to the cable coming from the controller. It is designed to detach with little force, so it comes apart without damage and doesn't pull on the console if a person trips over the cable or pulls on it too hard. These cables are used with the wired controllers, which work with the console or PC.
For reference, here is one listed on Amazon.
[edited to remove direct image link and leave just the page link for clarity]
Used with a cordless drill to clean and polish tires, rims, motorcycle forks etc. https://www.amazon.com/Mothers-05140-PowerBall-Metal-Polishing/dp/B0007RDVD4
Your tire is most likely punctured and will require a professional repair. I only accept patch plugs for use on my tires. Plain patches or plain string plugs aren't a long term proper repair, just a quick fix.
It's a marble maze puzzle. You put a marble into it, move it about a bit and then try to figure out how to get the marble out. When working at a small toy store in the '90s I saw a couple different versions of this.
edit: for example: https://www.amazon.com/Marble-Puzzle-Wooden-Brain-Teaser/dp/B005IDO5N2
It's a Panavise circuit board holder. The two arms hold a circuit card at the edges, and allow a technician to adjust the height/angle of the board for inspection or repair.
https://www.amazon.com/PanaVise-315-Circuit-Board-Holder/dp/B000B5Y99C
Edit: source: I am an electronics technician
Georges Braque Le Solitaire?
Edit: Did a google image search
Looks like a tide laundry pod. I noticed that the laundry pods are a little bit bigger and squishier than dishwasher pods.
Edit - pic of pod
That’s a Romertopf clay bakeware dish! So you bake stuff in it, like chicken or bread or whatever your little heart desires to heat in the oven!
It's an essay written by a Presbyterian minister. According to this source, it was written in 1923 and was commonly handed out at graduations.
No that is a recirculation valve, not a mixing valve. It's there to you don't have to wait forever for hot water. They're typically placed on faucets in bathrooms far away from the water heater.
https://www.amazon.com/Laing-LHB08100092-AutoCirc-Recirculation-Timer/dp/B0046MDAK0
https://www.diamondcertified.org/hot-water-recirculation-pump-benefits/
they are used on fishing lines to attract fish, in the military some of us would use the very small ones and put them in our mouths to be able to see what someone was whispering in the dark.
They go on the bottom of the rail, on either side of a sleeper. Took some digging, but I found this;http://www.railfasteners.com/1-6-rail-anchor.html and this;http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/railroad-railway-90LB-50KG-85LB-rail_329007911.html
That's pretty cool! It's a Feng Shui Luopan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luopan
It's hard to say how old yours might be. But they're still made and sold, here's one on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Feng-Shui-Chinese-Compass/dp/B001N2CXTA
It's for salad dressing, oil in the large part, vinegar, usually balsamic, in the smaller.
**Edit - looks just like this one https://www.amazon.com.au/Hand-blown-Glass-Vinegar-Cluster-Bottles/dp/B01N5NXTZQ
Open mesh sand cloth. Any local hardware store should have it. example Amazon link You'll need to figure out what grit you'd like.
Its a bottle opener card you can keep in your wallet.
Good show /u/baggyzed ! Kelly's Directory Of Chemists And Druggists This Work Manufacturing Chemists ... 1885, page 368 shows Johnson and Sons Manufacturing Chemists Limited, 12 (or 23) Cross st., Finsbury, London as a manufacturer of chloride of gold. They appeared to still be in business in the 1930s (can't find anything showing them as existing in the 1940s), so it's hard to tell when these vials were made.
In 1887 Johnson and Sons is found in The Commercial Directory and Shippers Guide as "assayers to the Bank of England, Her Majesty's Mint", bullion brokers, assayers of bullion, metals, minerals, pigments, refiners of platinum ; analytical, metallurgical and manufacturing chemists. That would explain the balancing scales in the logo.
EDIT: Much of the area the company was in was destroyed in WWII between September 1940 and May 1941 (The Blitz). I can't find a map that shows specific streets. So this is probably worth more as is as historical items than trying to convert the gold chloride to metal gold. If you include the items and chemicals needed, your return on the dollar (or Euro) will be low. 7 grains of Pure Gold times 6 is 2.7 grams of gold = total value about $100 USD. That's if you can chemically convert it to metal gold and get that full 7 grains out, then sell it even lower to a gold dealer.
Yes, it's a wire rack that goes on top/slides partway in a two-slice toaster. Here's a toaster on Amazon that shows the wire rack sitting on top, warming croissants.
https://www.amazon.com/Settings-Function-Removable-Stainless-Yabano/dp/B07PVLRLLQ
And a similar one posted to reddit.
I think it's a magnet.
"Package contains: 6 slotted/flat screwdrivers, 3 Philips/cross screwdrivers, AWL, magnet within a convenient plastic case."
It’s an antifreeze tester.
It tests the concentration of antifreeze in coolant water.
Here’s a similar one.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002SRDF0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_W9TW2ADTXJ44R0S11GNC
This is a mosquito bite remover. you place it over a bite and the electricity cooks the proteins and renders the bite gone.
It's a bodkin threader for sewing; used to pull cords and elastic through sewn channels. Like pulling the drawstring through a pair of sweatpants or a hoodie.
https://www.amazon.com/Maxmoral-Easy-Pull-Threader-Tweezers-Threading/dp/B0862BWR1G
I know exactly what this is, I've got one in my toolbox - It's a dressing wheel for a bench grinder, also known as a Grinding Dresser. This particular one is called a Star Dresser, or a Disk Wheel dresser.
Here's a similar one on Amazon.
And here's a similar tool in use. (Obviously, pretty noisy video, so might want to turn your volume down a little.)
It’s a lil chip that goes with a Star Wars: The Phantom Menace commtech toy. I think you boop it on the toy and it makes C-3PO flavored quotes. Here’s an Amazon link.
>Dierks Bentley
this is the correct answer. no need to down vote.
https://www.amazon.com/Country-Special-Lighters-Dierks-Bentley/
QPS QPCDRW121032FEM External 12x10x32 Firewire CD-RW Drive
It's a sinus wash system! It has a built-in filter so you can use tap water. I got mine at Rite Aid and I hate it because the water smells like movie popcorn after it's filtered. Here's one, and another at walgreens.
If anyone is curious and doesn't want to click those, it works by filling that bottom part (which is really the top) with water and dissolving a saline packet in it, flipping it upside-down, and sticking that nozzle-looking part up your nostril and then squeezing the crap out of the bottle so the water goes through your sinuses. The blue part is big cause that's where the filter is.
So satellites don’t work like standard camera. They have multiple sensors that take multiple photos. If something is moving differently than the pre determined speed of the satellite then you can get misalignment issues like this. Before color film it was possible to take 3 different images with colored filters on them (red blue green) and then stack the images to create color photos. Of course If anything moved they would have fringing it colored stripes behind them. This is know as the “Harris shutter effect” this satellite effect is similar.
Oh wow, that is further from the road than I anticipated.
As near as I can tell from the assessor's website, the properties on the road just south of this (Pine Meadows Way) do not extend up to the road you're on (Sunridge Road). There are also no homes on the south side of Sunridge, so that must be city/county land.
I skimmed a bit of the county planning website but can't find anything about it. Short of knocking on doors, this might remain a mystery.
It looks like the base (the home station) for wireless headphones. You'd need the correct headphones, and then you'd plug this into your device and it would broadcast to your headphones. This is pre-bluetooth tech.
Like this sort of thing
Removing corn from the cob. This is a more modern one that's easier to use.
https://www.amazon.com/m%C2%B7kvfa-Household-Stainless-Kitchen-Essential/dp/B07SPSQNKW
The one on Amazon can be pushed straight down the cob. The one you have needs to be rotated around the cob, which makes it slightly more difficult to use. That's why the teeth are angled one way like a saw, you pull the handle around the cob while pushing down.
Butter curlers are much thinner since they're slicing off a thin layer of butter, not being forced to cut through a lot of kernels.
It kind of looks like a dinosaur plant?
Ah, doing a search for Atharva AND dinosaur plant led me to this Amazon listing: https://www.amazon.com/Incense-Garden-Jericho-Flower-Resurrection/dp/B0823L43N2/ref=psdc_3749091_t2_B005Q2HXMA
Looks very similar to this: https://www.amazon.com/AUBNICO-Ultrasonic-Deterrent-Repellent-Squirrels/dp/B092VBP22W
Do they work? Not from what I've read...
It’s a portable ashtray. It looks like it’s sold on amazon for $12
Lawrencewang68 Mini Portable Ashtray, Windproof Cigarette Ash Holder Pocket Watch Shape Metal Cigar Ashtray with Keychain Design for Outdoors https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VK3R389/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_GZjOFbRP9KCSP
Middle curved thing is a french curve ruler.
Going by that I found https://www.amazon.com/Multi-Function-Drawing-Stationery-Architect-Versatile/dp/B07RQXD7VQ/
which duplicates what you got.
Part of a fountain that was probably supposed to be a mill with water wheel. These were all the rage in the 90s and came in many different sizes and designs. They were usually formed to look like old fashioned stone structures with water wheels, usually grain mills, castles, or even full villages with a river running through it. The only similarities were the stone work and water wheels.
Google provides this link
It's part of an apparatus for launching aircraft with a catapult.
Where did you see it?
Could it be a basic variation of a sacred geometrical hourglass? Abstract or otherwise? Something like this but a basic/ similar version:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/hourglass-sacred-geometry-black-cyan-vector-406524217
It's a far reach but stranger things have happened.
For the left one, this site seems to label it two-face icon, but I can't find much more using reverse image search. Maybe check with some comic fans.
Tour de France, 1922, Verdun
it's these motion sensor lights. I have the same ones. If it doesn't light up it's broken.
That is a drill press handle: https://www.amazon.com/Drill-Press-Machines-Parts-Handle/dp/B087RKYJMF
Or similar handle from a machine tool
It's used to make fancy vegetables to impress your guests when you have veggies and dip.
Edit: here's one such spiral slicer. https://www.amazon.com/Chef-Harvey-Spiral-Stainless-Garnishes/dp/B001BDRRSS/ref=asc_df_B001BDRRSS/?
It's a reflex hammer, specifically modelled after one like this.
A magnetically controlled alarm but I think they make have installed it wrong. It's supposed to go on the other side of the door so when the door opens the device detects that the magnet is no longer in range and signals.
https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Door-window-Alarm-Trisonic/dp/B000UTBGJU
This is absolutely correct. It is an extended IR receiver so you can have the main unit inside a cabinet or otherwise obstructed, but still be able to use the remote.
I'm pretty sure that's a cheese slicer.
Yes Bicycle Cycling Laser Tail Light 2 Laser & 5 LED 7 Modes Mountain Bike Safety warning Flashing Lamp Alarm Light Back Rear Led https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016J796WA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_nHUZFb0ZB4PBA
My parents have these. What you found is one half of a pair of shoe trees. The small ones, like yours, are generally used in women's shoes. Here's a set of women's shoe trees on Amazon.
It's a plastic pot drainer with a piece left attached from when it was made. Cut the little pizza box piece off. Should work beautifully for straining your noodles or whatever. example from amazon
You stab it into a carrot or cucumber and turn it to make spiral shape. Can’t remember what it’s called.
FWIW, here's an ad for F. H. Ayres, Ltd., of London, from a 1907 sporting magazine. It says: "Manufacturers of all Indoor and Outdoor Games and Sports … All requisites for lawn tennis, cricket, croquet, badminton, lawn bowls, golf, hockey, billiards, football, gymnastics, fencing, &c."
It's not an antenna, it's a Master adjustable cable lock similar to this. (I have about 3 of them around my house.)
The box itself is just a Pelican case, most likely a Protector 1450 judging by the size.
What they're used for is anyone's guess, as long as there is no label indicating the owner.
This really seems like Moregllons. Most doctors believe it's delusional parasitosis (sores caused by extreme picking/scratching, fibers from clothing/bandages), though according to that WebMD article, the CDC study was inconclusive. But if you Google it, there is quite a lot out there about it.
Pile driver. It's pounding in posts likely for a pier or some other permanent structure. Same concept is used for very heavy buildings.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=pile+driver&qpvt=pile+driver&qpvt=pile+driver&FORM=IGRE
Nicholas Wotton, +1482, rector of St.Martin, Outwich
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/stiffleaf/16631455/in/keyword/12625/self
Brass relaid at St. Helen's, Bishopsgate
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol9/pt1/pp36-51
I am not an art student, or an art lover in particular. I only found this by perseverance, and luck and a hunch.
The print is based upon a Wassily Kandisky painting, entitled At Rest. It is painting number 46 on the page linked below (second from bottom):
http://www.hugbear.net/hugbear/viewinfobearworks415.html
http://www.wikiart.org/en/wassily-kandinsky/at-rest
It's Miller time!
It looks to be a device to get a twist from a piece of citrus fruit
Edit: relevant how to video on twists
Based on the plot of the game I would assume Mohawk.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin's_Creed_III
EDIT: it is Mohawk or Kanien’kéha
And for those who love crabs and use their nutcracker set to pick crabs, it may also be thought of as a crab pick. Here's what the nutcracker and this pick look like. https://www.amazon.com/Tablecraft-Nutcracker-Pick-Set-H1245/dp/B006IMRYTY/ref=asc_df_B006IMRYTY/?
The box says "Cobra Anchors Corp" and they make all sorts of hardware for anchoring things into walls, like these.
It's just a quick way to check the size of the one you pull out of an assortment box.
This one is a different company, but if you look on top of the box you can see it also has rulers on it.
https://www.amazon.com/316Pcs-Tapping-Screws-Different-Anchors/dp/B08QRJWNRG/ref=asc_df_B08QRJWNRG
Ah, that's something else. I guess you want something like this?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071YBGGZX
The bar on these screws in, so you would need a small jeweler's tool / precision driver, or find a set that includes the tool. I'm not recommending this one in particular, it's just the first one that popped up.
Key rack for keys with tags though it's installed upside down.
They're button hooks/helpers -they're used by people with limited dexterity to help do up buttons. It's common for old people to have them because of arthritis or tremors making the fine manipulation needed to button a shirt difficult.
They're button hooks. You push the wire through a button hole, put the button in the loop and pull the button through the buttonhole.
https://www.amazon.com/AUEAR-Button-Zipper-Helper-Arthritis/dp/B07Q484WW1
edited link, this one shows the hook in action.
You're welcome. If you want a helpful tip for the future, when you come across things like this, the Google translate app has live translations through your camera so you can just point your camera at it and it will display the text in English right on the screen in real time. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate
We found out what it is.
It's this thing. https://www.amazon.com/Kamenstein-Drawer-25-Pod-Coffee-Organizer/dp/B00AK9PYSE
Thanks for all your help
It's him. Here's his picture on a hardcover biography with multiple copies on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/094570710X/ref=olp_aod_redir_impl1?_encoding=UTF8&aod=1
There's no handle on the Zyliss pizza cutter.
https://www.amazon.com/ZYLISS-Pizza-Cutter-Wheel-Slicer/dp/B002IT37Z6
Partially correct... the hole is there to keep the blade from moving when you need to remove it for cleaning.