What is this?

[bobbi-j]

Is it for making rope?

You win!

 

[SueT]

You win!

 

[SueT]

Okay, here's another old item....I am not showing the entire thing or you all would surely know it...here are 2 close-ups
We are in a thunderstorm, so if I don't get back to you, it will be because we lost power or internet or our house floated away in all this rain....

 

[bobbi-j]

Size?

 

[SueT]

Size?

That metal part in pic 1 is 4 3/4" high

 

[bobbi-j]

No idea. DH is stumped, too.

 

[SueT]

It would have been used in the house. Here's a pencil for size reference.

 

[bobbi-j]

It would have been used in the house. Here's a pencil for size reference.
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Hmm... for cooking?

 

[bobbi-j]

Gas powered iron? (DH's guess - I had no idea that was a thing!)

 

[SueT]

Hmm... for cooking?

not cooking