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Title: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: Sfenster on November 09, 2013, 01:13:55 PM: Hi, all. Any thoughts as to what this might be? Made of sturdy metal and stands upright. Nary a marking on it. Some have guessed a lollipop display, but haven't seen another like it. Ideas?

Thanks! Susan
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: bigwull on November 09, 2013, 01:52:12 PM: could just be for lollipops..Chupa Chups...but it looks a bit too substantial,for them...might be Pens,...or anthing with a stick...btw..from your use of nary...can i deduce that you are on my side of the pond...
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: KC on November 09, 2013, 02:26:14 PM: Feather dusters....tools...?
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: mart on November 09, 2013, 03:04:17 PM: How big around is each individual compartment ?? Might try putting a Number 2 pencil inside and see how many it would hold !! Also how deep are they !! Height of the entire stand !! From the size of the base it fit under another display box !! I remember something like this back in the 60`s that had different color eyeshadow/lip liner pencils !! Not sure this is the same though !!
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: bigwull on November 09, 2013, 03:08:55 PM: looking at that pic that hole looks to be approx 18mm,or there aboots,might be 3/4 in auld money..and lipsticks could just be the key...
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: ghopper1924 on November 09, 2013, 04:14:42 PM: It's a cigar display! ;)
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: KC on November 09, 2013, 04:20:52 PM: By-the-way sfenster...welcome to the board with the great "what is it?" item!!!
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: Sfenster on November 09, 2013, 09:32:37 PM: Hi, it's sfenster (Susan)....thanks for all your feedback today! I'm not a dealer, but help people handle the remnants of mid- to large-estates. Through the years, you think you've seen just about everything, and then you stumble on an oddity like this one. I will provide dimensions on the object the next time I'm at that house. Someone in my family suggested a flag holder (mid-size), but that cigar idea is intriguing.

As for my location, I'm from western New York but an affirmed Anglophile.

Me thinketh another disastrous year for thy Buffalo Bills.

Again, thanks for the kind welcome and the help :-)

Susan
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: KC on November 09, 2013, 09:39:30 PM: Might be to shoot off fireworks from! :)
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: mart on November 09, 2013, 09:41:43 PM: Only problem with the cigar theory is unless refreshed often they would dry out !! But it conceivable that there were fakes in the holder just labeled to look real with the brand info !! Would sure be a good window display !! It holds a few too many for me to think that's it but,, you never know !!
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: fancypants on November 09, 2013, 10:46:55 PM: Dunno what that item is , but something for a floral spray came to mind ... too scary-looking to be a GMO cow-milker , or display for catepiller waders ...

Welcome to the forum , Sfenster !
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: mart on November 10, 2013, 01:23:08 PM: Fancypants,, if that isn`t a cliffhanger,,,I don`t know what is !!!
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: ghopper1924 on November 10, 2013, 04:12:29 PM: Cigars....I'm telling ye!!
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: Sfenster on November 10, 2013, 05:34:18 PM: Ok, friends! I have the dimensions:

13" tall overall

24 tubes are 1.5" long with an opening .5" wide

Curiouser and curiouser...

Susan
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: icedgold10 on November 10, 2013, 05:37:42 PM: Try putting a lipstick tube in it just to see the fit? The holders could have had wrappings around them at one point.
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: KC on November 10, 2013, 05:43:11 PM: Just making me scratch my head on this one......
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: mart on November 10, 2013, 09:38:07 PM: Quote from: KC on November 09, 2013, 09:39:30 PM
Might be to shoot off fireworks from! :)

Just imagine this thing and a bunch of bottle rockets !! Right KC ???
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: KC on November 10, 2013, 09:51:10 PM: Mart, that would be sooooooo much fun! :)
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: bigwull on November 11, 2013, 05:39:21 PM: Quote from: KC on November 10, 2013, 05:43:11 PM
Just making me scratch my head on this one......
..Gawd!!...woman,..you,ve got me scratching..and i don,t have any... ;D
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: KC on November 11, 2013, 06:08:08 PM: You don't have a head Wullie...hmmmm!!! So much I could put her.....behave, behave, behave...... ;)
Title: Re: Help identifying store fixture (?)
Post by: bigwull on November 11, 2013, 06:22:27 PM: Eh...never mentioned ma heid...as it happens..i was thinking o, something else...but you got there ahead o, me... ;D