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Title: What is this ?
Post by: idaho1 on April 27, 2013, 10:13:52 pm
Its about 8'' round . Handle is cast iron and used to have a wood handle on it . Has a scew on lid .
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Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: talesofthesevenseas on April 28, 2013, 12:53:39 am
I could not find a thing running searches for "Mary Jane". anyone else?
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: bigwull on April 28, 2013, 04:00:23 am
it looks like its for dispersing...someth ing,...that screw on the side, is it a cap, and is this "container"hollow...
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: cogar on April 28, 2013, 04:32:24 am
A "rolling" salt shaker???  >:( >:(
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: bigwull on April 28, 2013, 04:34:36 am
its along those lines.....i thought maybe a gardening tool....for dispersing...whatev er....
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: Rauville on April 28, 2013, 08:43:28 am
Might be a good seller today...Looks like a "bed bug powder dispenser" for running around your bed to create a kill zone on the floor.  ???
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: bigwull on April 28, 2013, 09:45:05 am
 :o :o :o :o :o..whats this...the man who knows everything...guessi ng......Oh!!....my bubble has been burst.... :'( :'(
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: idaho1 on April 28, 2013, 11:15:29 am
 :) salt shaker , my grandma used about that much salt !

Well .. it is totaly hollow and the inside is pretty clean . From what i can reason , it was not meant to get hot or it would ruin the paint on it so its not a smoker of sorts . Dont think it was for rolling in the dirt .

Bed bug dispenser does make sence . I guessed it might be to roll out lime or chalk on grass for a sport of some kind . The grille is only about 2'' wide . 

Or it could be used to put dirt on a clean floor ???
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: bigwull on April 28, 2013, 12:47:09 pm
thats what gardening tools do, they dispense things....but not flea pooder... ;D
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: KC on April 28, 2013, 01:24:19 pm
Reminds me of a marking tool! You fill with powder and walk, rolling it on the ground and it leaves a powdered marking!!!
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: mart on April 28, 2013, 01:34:27 pm
I looked for something like that KC but didn`t find it !!
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: bigwull on April 28, 2013, 02:13:11 pm
Reminds me of a marking tool! You fill with powder and walk, rolling it on the ground and it leaves a powdered marking!!!
Exactly what Rauville said it was.... ;D ;D..darn..i,ve developed an itch....
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: KC on May 01, 2013, 11:28:26 am
I was thinking as in marking a field or garden.

As for that itch....this product works great here in the US...stops the itch!
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Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: bigwull on May 01, 2013, 11:36:46 am
Mmm,..Monkey butts.......na...th ese are butts. ;D..
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: Ipcress on May 01, 2013, 03:47:00 pm
its along those lines.....i thought maybe a gardening tool....for dispersing...whatev er....

Like putting lines on tennis courts  !

Looks like a rod is placed in the attachment and it rolls. Weird
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: mart on May 01, 2013, 04:38:55 pm
LOL !!  I had to paint a butt on a bucket for a friend once,, And I labeled it as such !!  "Butt Bucket" for smokers !!
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: cogar on May 02, 2013, 03:28:08 am
 With that fancily written name of "Mary Jane" on it ..... I'm guessing that it is a "specialty" kitchen item for dispensing a garnish on a baking pan or on the food that is to be or was already baked. 

Maybe for "sprinkling" an even coating of sugar on cookies or whatever. ;D ;D
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: bigwull on May 02, 2013, 04:54:23 am
With that fancily written name of "Mary Jane" on it ..... I'm guessing that it is a "specialty" kitchen item for dispensing a garnish on a baking pan or on the food that is to be or was already baked. 

Maybe for "sprinkling" an even coating of sugar on cookies or whatever. ;D ;D
If thats the case then it must have been for a family of Giants....
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: KC on May 02, 2013, 11:32:30 am
Okay Wullie, i literally laughed out loud on that one.  That is pretty much what I was thinking....




Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: bigwull on May 02, 2013, 11:39:35 am
Its that Mountain air....or a mixture of that and whatever other things he has up there..its pickled his brain....maybe...he,s been at the Belladonna Moonshine...."get that Ghopper,.... ;D
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: ghopper1924 on May 02, 2013, 11:46:12 am
 "Wullie's gone but his song lives on."

Perhaps he needs a new "Audience."
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: bigwull on May 02, 2013, 11:49:09 am
i,m back ...with "Friends, Friend,s Friend,s
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: matt3969 on May 02, 2013, 12:33:59 pm
I would say its for marking a outline in chalk, like for a tennis court or a baseball field.
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: mart on May 02, 2013, 03:11:28 pm
That was our assumption but can`t find one like it !!
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: cogar on May 03, 2013, 04:39:44 am
With that fancily written name of "Mary Jane" on it ..... I'm guessing that it is a "specialty" kitchen item for dispensing a garnish on a baking pan or on the food that is to be or was already baked. 

Maybe for "sprinkling" an even coating of sugar on cookies or whatever. ;D ;D
If thats the case then it must have been for a family of Giants....

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(KC) Okay Wullie, i literally laughed out loud on that one.  That is pretty much what I was thinking....

OOPS, ... my bad, .... I didn't realize one could still buy one of those "thingy's" at a Sears, Walmart or Dollar General Store. How much do they cost, I need at least 2 of them? ;D ;D ;D

Now it will surely be highly surprising to ya'll .... but pre-1950 there was not very many gigantic bakeries producing tens-of-thousands of Sugar Cookies, etc., etc., 24/7 every day of the year ........ but there were tens-of-thousands of, per say, Mom n' Pop bakeries with one or more operating in most every city and town in the US of A.

And those are pretty much all gone ..... except the ones that "specialize" in donuts.

HA, I remember my mother once handing me a nickel with instructions to go down to the local bakery and get a loaf of "fresh baked" bread, which I did. 

I think it was for making sandwiches to put in Dad's lunch pail ..... because Ma always made a pan of biscuits for pretty much every meal.

It t'wasn't until loaves of "sliced" bread started being delivered to the grocery stores that Mom's biscuit making slowed up.

Cheers
 
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: bigwull on May 03, 2013, 05:16:12 am
Yo, been picking them wild mushies..up in them thar hills...cos..i don,t have a scooby..at what your on about...and anyway..what has all this home bakin got to do with the price of carrots.... ;D
Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: cogar on May 03, 2013, 05:49:12 am
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Yo, been picking them wild mushies..up in them thar hills...

You are half-right Bigwull, I ate a big plate load of fried Morels on both day before yesterday and yesterday evening (Wed & Thur) ...... but they were delivered to me by 2 different people.

And my oh my oh, were they good tastin. ;D ;D ;D

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Title: Re: What is this ?
Post by: bigwull on May 03, 2013, 06:15:49 am
Well!!...if it tastes as bad as it looks...well you know what you can do with it...i was thinking more a long the lines of these....guaranteed to send you to the moon...with No Rocket neccessary.... ;D