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Title: Help! I have no idea!
Post by: wiscjeeper on June 30, 2012, 02:06:32 PM

Found this in my grandma's basement.  She said it has been sitting there for probably 30 years if not more...and she got it from her grandparents.  It is very heavy..probably 5-6 lbs.   The center is definitely iron and then a weird would wrap around the middle.  Any ideas what it would be used for?  Thanks for any advice!

Title: Re: Help! I have no idea!
Post by: mart on June 30, 2012, 02:11:20 PM

 How tall is it !!

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Post by: wiscjeeper on June 30, 2012, 03:02:59 PM

11 inches!

Title: Re: Help! I have no idea!
Post by: mart on June 30, 2012, 03:09:46 PM

Like the other one that was posted this could be a multi purpose kitchen tool !!  For anything from pounding meat to tenderizing or pushing fruit through a seive for jam, apple butter ect !!  That would be my guess !!

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Post by: KC on June 30, 2012, 05:42:26 PM

These heavy ones were for pounding/grinding grains into flour!

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Post by: mart on June 30, 2012, 07:07:21 PM

Didn`t think about it but,,, that too !!  They probably had more uses for these things than a dog has fleas !!

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Post by: KC on June 30, 2012, 10:48:04 PM

Mart you crack me up!!!

Title: Re: Help! I have no idea!
Post by: mart on July 01, 2012, 08:59:14 AM

Shucks, KC !!  Its just my country raisin` popping out again !!

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Post by: Trugmaker on July 01, 2012, 12:32:11 PM

Wouldn't put my life on it, but I believe it could be a woodcarvers mallet.

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Post by: yattypat on July 01, 2012, 02:40:57 PM

Seems too heavy to be a mallet.  Looks like an old grain grinder to me.  Very nice piece, I would bring it to a local expert.

Title: Re: Help! I have no idea!
Post by: mart on July 01, 2012, 05:17:04 PM

I think its a bit heavy for a woodworkers mallet too !!  Grain maul would be more likely !!