What is this item?

[xillent]

Chaps, What is this item for? Recently found. For bending/ curving maybe?

 

[OJCar]

Handraulic powered sharpening stone.

Clamps to the end of a bench or table, turn the wooden handle, sharpening stone rotates.

 

[Erie Fred]

The stone looks like for sickle bar sections.
But that's just like, you know "My opinion Man".

 

[brightspark]

looks rather knacked to me

 

[Nomad]

Is it a prototype manual bench grinder - before it was refined to more common style (picture is easier than trying to explain)

 

[xillent]

The "stone" part is quite soft.

 

[dobbslc]

It's a vintage Alfa Romeo Clover Leaf wheel.

 

[cheb]

It's for weighing in.

 

[Bullet2012]

sell it to a trendy nail bar. probably wirth millions

 

[Ian X]

Last time I was in Britain there were pubs with things like that sat on window cills or hanging on the wall. That was at least 15 years after the Singer cast iron treadle and legs thing (again pinned to walls) which followed the how many yards of bookends and bogus bookshelves do you want on your wall era.

 

[cheb]

Last time I was in Britain there were pubs with things like that sat on window cills or hanging on the wall. That was at least 15 years after the Singer cast iron treadle and legs thing (again pinned to walls) which followed the how many yards of bookends and bogus bookshelves do you want on your wall era.

Country pubs used to have mole traps and like on their walls, just the thing for a bit ambiance.

 

[Ian X]

Country pubs used to have mole traps and like on their walls, just the thing for a bit ambiance.

There was a pub at Cauldon Low in Staffs that had some badgers heads on the wall in the 70's, too many badgers heads. They took them down in the 80's and put up the contents of peoples barns and outhouses. This pub was exceptional because it was not a corporate ale house place, it was for "local people".

 

[cheb]

I've got a lovely white glass doored wall cabinet, it came from a doctors' surgery. It's crying out for a good medical specimen in a jar or a bit of alarming taxidermy, currently it has a phrenology head in it.

 

[OJCar]

I've got a lovely white glass doored wall cabinet ... currently it has a thinking head in it.

 

[Onoff]

Last time I was in Britain there were pubs with things like that sat on window cills or hanging on the wall.

Still is in my boozer:

https://flic.kr/p/2qvv25e

 

[cheb]

What would I need one of those for?

 

[Blobber]

What would I need one of those for?

Chasing the non locals away

 

[cheb]

Chasing the non locals away

It was meant in reply to OJCar

 

[Onoff]

Country pubs used to have mole traps and like on their walls, just the thing for a bit ambiance.

We have those, tack, blow lamps, bull rings, war pennies, a stuffed fox, wooden woodworking tools etc.

Also a knitted Monkey from the tea ads...

 

[Onoff]

Chasing the non locals away

Yarp.