What is this?

[duluthralphie]

I've got something, it shouldn't be that hard to guess:
View attachment 1686061

A hammer

 

[CarpCharacin]

Fountain pen!

That's partially correct, but what is it? It isn't an entire fountain pen.

A hammer

 

[SueT]

It isn't an entire fountain pen.

Well what is missing? Is it just the insides of the pen? I remember fountain pens, some you had to fill, some had cartridges. I remember inkwells in our desks in school, tho they no longer held bottles of ink.....

 

[duluthralphie]

Well what is missing? Is it just the insides of the pen? I remember fountain pens, some you had to fill, some had cartridges. I remember inkwells in our desks in school, tho they no longer held bottles of ink.....

I sadly remember ink wells in the corner of the desk too.......

 

[Loopeend]

We had a 'blast' finding this thing when digging in our yard that has a heavy war-history.
It is as long as an underarm. No hand in the picture for scale-compairing due to reasons.
It's filled and not hollow and heavy.

It took some time to find out what it is; do you?

 

[SueT]

We had a 'blast' finding this thing when digging in our yard that has a heavy war-history.
It is as long as an underarm. No hand in the picture for scale-compairing due to reasons.
It's filled and not hollow and heavy.

It took some time to find out what it is; do you?

View attachment 1686539

Is it some kind of detonator?

 

[duluthralphie]

It must be a missile or missile component. However, it looks a lot like a sand point. (let me guess you young'uns with city backgrounds do not know what a sand point is either?

 

[Loopeend]

It must be a missile or missile component. However, it looks a lot like a sand point. (let me guess you young'uns with city backgrounds do not know what a sand point is either?

Heehee we younglings with city-backgrounds that watched too many hollywood movies but also have gotton a lot of history lessons at school about ww2 indeed lacked some knowledge. We were sure it was a missile. A bomb. A granate ment to be able to get through the exterior of a tank. And we three when finding it were running around like chickens without a head, pretty sure óne of us actually peed it's pants..all saying final prayers because this thing wil SURELY go off and our end is near...

We stopped when my mom mentioned it was ment to stabalize a pole in the ground where you can hang clothes to dry. Since you know, God didn't create electric tumble-dryers on day one.

We already found 20+ of these while digging, recognized these since my mom in the 80's used them, but this is an older model from before ww2. And I think I can guess why they changed the look of this thing afterwards Since morrons like us have allways excisted..and we were probably not the first ones to mistake it for a missile of some sort.

I award you a half point since a sand point indeed looks like it; but it's not a sand point. And I found your reaction really funny and helpfull. Whén finding a sand point while digging I won't make the same bomb-mistake now..heehee.

 

[duluthralphie]

Heehee we younglings with city-backgrounds that watched too many hollywood movies but also have gotton a lot of history lessons at school about ww2 indeed lacked some knowledge. We were sure it was a missile. A bomb. A granate ment to be able to get through the exterior of a tank. And we three when finding it were running around like chickens without a head, pretty sure óne of us actually peed it's pants..all saying final prayers because this thing wil SURELY go off and our end is near...

We stopped when my mom mentioned it was ment to stabalize a pole in the ground where you can hang clothes to dry. Since you know, God didn't create electric tumble-dryers on day one.

We already found 20+ of these while digging, recognized these since my mom in the 80's used them, but this is an older model from before ww2. And I think I can guess why they changed the look of this thing afterwards Since morrons like us have allways excisted..and we were probably not the first ones to mistake it for a missile of some sort.

I award you a half point since a sand point indeed looks like it; but it's not a sand point. And I found your reaction really funny and helpfull. Whén finding a sand point while digging I won't make the same bomb-mistake now..heehee.

ROFLMAO!!!
Great reply...

We never used those for our clothes poles, We just used Ceeeeeeement blocks....




Actually, this is exactly the type of things I envisioned being shown on this thread. Things used in the past that we have now forgotten or never knew about.

So many things my Grandparents and Great Grand parents used daily are completely unheard of now. I probably jumped the gun on this thread and should have waited until the 24 ft of snow is gone from my yard so I can get pictures of the old stuff...

BTW Great picture... The wire on the top/bottom had me stumped...

 

[CarpCharacin]

Well what is missing? Is it just the insides of the pen? I remember fountain pens, some you had to fill, some had cartridges. I remember inkwells in our desks in school, tho they no longer held bottles of ink.....

Yeah, I guess that's close enough, it's the pen part from a click retractable fountain pen. It's a fountain pen, not a dip pen, so it holds ink.