Guess What Article for June 2001
By Bob Cahn, “The Primitive Man”

This month we’re giving you a “Guess What” with a view. In fact two views – bird’s eye and worm’s eye. Patented Sept. 12, 1876, this hand-held or palm item of wood has multiple semi-blunt steel spikes imbedded in a round base (dimensions: 3 1/2″ H X 3″ Diam.).

All you have to do is put on your thinking bibs and mentally munch your way through our smorgasbord of thirty tasty tidbits. We’ve even included the winning appetizer du jour. If you overdose on the Swedish meatballs, Pepto Bismol for all.

Suggestions:

Pizza maker’s bubbling cheese burster
Early cancelled check perforator
Tattoo artist’s connect-the-dots ink impregnator
Textile pattern maker’s dot design stitch stamp
Floating flower frog and stem crusher
Lumpy gravy smoother
Wall painter’s stucco stippler
Primitive antique show re-entry hand stamp
Cartographer’s mountain shrubbery terrain imprinter
Child’s arts and crafts wool sewing card hole starter punch
Biscuit pricker
Pipe tobacco small clump breaker-upper
Potter’s pattern texture dimpler
Sheep herder’s dye branding marker
Boiled potato de-lumping masher
US Treasury counterfeit bills destroyer
Seed starter ground hole puncture germination kit implement
Furniture maker’s exotic wood inlay inserter
Chocolate chip cookie hole poker and crevice creator
Flat tire vulcanizing repair kit roughening abraser
Garlic clove mincer and crusher
Early painted furniture graining tool
Horse groomer’s curry comb
Child’s knotted hair tresses de-tangler
Early Post Office package stamp cancellation perforator
Meat tenderizer
Pre-leech blood letting bleeder surgical implement
Burnt food pot scourer
Window box planter soil aerator and cultivator
Walnut chopper

When next we meet we’ll have a winner. How about next month?

Answer to April Issue Guess What..?

Decades in the past, when the English wanted to child-proof (or servant-proof) their homes, they didn’t start with under the sink or garden pesticides or electrical outlets – but the wine cellar or the liquor cabinet. So if you have last month’s column handy for reference – check out entry number nine. What was featured was a liquor bottle lock. Set on top, the hinged cover would be closed, enveloping the neck, the spring-loaded vertical plunger pushed down, locking the cylinder cap and preventing any unauthorized siphoning or sipping of the precious contents. The inscription reads: “Her Majesty’s Royal Letters Patent” – Thomas Turner & Co. – Wolverton. *

*Available for acquisition