A Mystery Tool

[Tengu]

You undo the screw and theres a smaller version on the other end.

 

[British Red]

Lino cutter?

 

[Goatboy]

Used to have something with a similar style head but a horn handle. It was for putting a brace of holes in the top of tins of say evaporated milk. One as a pouring hole the other as an air vent. The two little bottle opener type indents caught on the lip of the tin and the point pushed through.
Don't know if that's what it is but it looks awful like it.
Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[British Red]

You are talking about a church key can opener there Colin. I still use them

 

[TeeDee]

There seems to be a hole in the actual blade upon magnification. Possibly for inserting a thread/sinew of some sort?

 

[Tengu]

there are two slots

 

[Goatboy]

You are talking about a church key can opener there Colin. I still use them

Aye, hadn't really thought about it that way as Church Keys were always lighter and more pocketable where as this was a big-ish double ended thing with a big lump of polished curved horn atween them. It was more of a table piece. Come to think of it I've not really seen one like it Hugh. It was mainly used for poking holes in Carnation® Evaporated Milk tins.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[dazcon]

Some kind of core remover?

 

[sunndog]

Used to have something with a similar style head but a horn handle. It was for putting a brace of holes in the top of tins of say evaporated milk. One as a pouring hole the other as an air vent. The two little bottle opener type indents caught on the lip of the tin and the point pushed through.
Don't know if that's what it is but it looks awful like it.
Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

Those used to be used to make what must be the original hobo stove out of two bean tins......looked a bit like this one


https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?img...d=0CDQQMygSMBJqFQoTCLzG0_3w78cCFeRp2wodjY4CtA

 

[Alan 13~7]

Aye, hadn't really thought about it that way as Church Keys were always lighter and more pocketable where as this was a big-ish double ended thing with a big lump of polished curved horn atween them. It was more of a table piece. Come to think of it I've not really seen one like it Hugh. It was mainly used for poking holes in Carnation® Evaporated Milk tins.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

Yea I was thinking church key also, but that looks like it might have some surgical use.... Maybe being used in the same manner as church key...

 

[TeeDee]

there are two slots

Are the two slots above each other Tengu?

 

[Tengu]

Yes.

Do you know what it is?

 

[mountainm]

A cheese sampler? Plunge into a wheel of cheese to remove a plug for sampling.

Just a guess.

 

[Whittler Kev]

Doesn't a church key opener have a curved piercer on it?

 

[British Red]

Not always curved Kev but angled yes

 

[TarHeelBrit]

Doesn't look like a cheese sampler to me. Those I've seen and used have a wood T handle on them. I was wondering if it might be a gouge for leather work????. What's really ticking me off is I've seen something like that and it was being used. But I can't remember where.

 

[Alreetmiowdmuka]

I keep thinking I've seen one of these before too.i'm sure it's some sort of key for opening windows or summert daft like that


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[baggins]

i think its what we used to call a bic biro. i remember using them at school before all these keyboard things.
the thing below it, clay modelling tool???

 

[Toddy]

It looks like some version of an oil can opener spike/spile …..like this sort of thing.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-OIL-CAN-OPENER-POURING-SPOUT-28-4608-NO-C015-/281358101059

M

 

[Mack13]

That looks familiar but can't place it... Could it be a carpenter's/upholsterer's reamer from the 70s/80s?