Help identifying a thing/ random object

[PoleDriver]

It's actually a device for removing eyeballs. Developed and used by the Spanish Inquisition!

(I bet nobody expected that!)

[NDA]

Vaud said:

I think so too, I have asked aged parents if they recognise it!

I hope they don't say 'butt plug?' in response.

[Vaud]

Response one is:

"Interesting - is it for knitting socks? You could thread this to produce something tubular."

[Shakermaker]

Vaud said:

Response one is:

"Interesting - is it for knitting socks? You could thread this to produce something tubular."

I was maybe on the right lines then....

[PoleDriver]

Willy warmer knitter?

[davhill]

It's a dooberry.

[Ayahuasca]

Kierkegaard said:

No one noticed the little ghost with the face in the wood grain of OP's photo? Just above whatever the hell that thing is.

ghost of a cat?

[davhill]

Maybe it's for laying pastry on a pie. When it's closed and pulled out upwards it leaves the necessary vent hole in the middle.

[bomma220]

It's a grapefruit segmenter. Coupled with a good 12 gauge shotgun, it's a marvellous culinary aid. You do need to be a fairly good shot though.

[FurtiveFreddy]

It's a device for removing the lid from a large jar of pickled onions.

[W00DY]

It's a sunken biscuit retrieval device. Stops those lost segments of digestive from ruining the remainder of your tea.

[Mr GrimNasty]

Ask the mice on the mouse organ, but don't listen to Professor Yaffle, he thinks everything they suggest is ridiculous.

[james_tigerwoods]

It's for removing hot lightbulbs. This was in the pre-bayonet, Edison screw and Tesla coil days.

[kowalski655]

A victorian head massager,an early version of this:

In the 40s they found it didnt need as many prongs,so that saved a lot of metal that went to the war effort,at least 200 Spitfire's worth

[talksthetorque]

It's the choke lever from this car

[David A]

FurtiveFreddy said:

It's a device for removing the lid from a large jar of pickled onions.

Or rather a pickled egg / pickled onion picker outer? Too sensible?

[EnglishTony]

vsonix said:

is it a steamer?

Doesn't look anything like one - not even P&O /Cunard on the side of it's funnel.

That black and white car is a Farina bodied Panhard but don't tell anyone. Only available in black and white 'cos they hadn't invented colour in France at that point.

[james_tigerwoods]

I've got it. It's an early vasectomy tool for removing testicles. Early keyhole surgery, if you will...

[glenrobbo]

It's an ancient Egyptian mummifier's tool used for removing brains via the nostrils.

[Goaty Bill 2]

Sorry to spoil all the fun. Some wonderful, if not somewhat fanciful speculations here.

It's a flue cleaner.

The first photo is how you let it down the flue....then you give it a good jerk & it opens out & scrapes the flue as you pull it back up.

Confirmed on good authority.