2228: maybe a port for a speaking tube? Open, the servants can hear
you, closed they cannot.
2229: a vacuum cup drill; it clamps onto a surface (?glass,
polished rock) and drills a hole in it.
2230: maybe a fabric-arts gizmo, to hold strands of some kind
of braidwork project?\
2232: looks like a kind of carpet (canvas?) stretcher.
"Rob H." <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> 2232: looks like a kind of carpet (canvas?) stretcher.
>
>
>Canvas stretcher is the closest guess so far, it was used on an animal farm
>in England, Wales or Scotland.
>
>
Sheepskin hides?
"Scott Lurndal" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Rob H." <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> 2232: looks like a kind of carpet (canvas?) stretcher.
>>
>>
>>Canvas stretcher is the closest guess so far, it was used on an animal
>>farm
>>in England, Wales or Scotland.
>>
>>
>
> Sheepskin hides?
No but sheep is the type of animal it's related to.
>> No but sheep is the type of animal it's related to.
>
> Got that one too finally. It's for tightening big sacks of wool at sheep
> shearing time.
> --
> Dave Baker
Good job on finding those answers, there are lots of interesting old tools
on that site which I've linked to on the answer page, I'm still not sure
about the second item but the rest have all been identified this week:
http://55tools.blogspot.com/2011/04/set-386.html#answers
Rob