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426. A Slaters Hammer. It cuts slate, makes nail holes , puts in nails and removes them. A slate roofing shop in one tool.

8/11/2005 5:36 AM

428: A close up of a thermometer?

8/11/2005 5:41 AM

425 A wagon Jack

8/11/2005 11:22 AM

429 Used for taking samples of bulk grains etc.

8/11/2005 11:24 AM

424 For handling the lower loop of the cord that raises a flag up a flagpole.
428 I agree on the thermometer.

8/11/2005 1:43 PM

424. I'm thinking about flags for this one, too, but maybe it holds the flag for the horizontal type of flagpole that extends from the sides of buildings.

8/11/2005 9:00 PM

427 - A seam puller for dis-assembling a sewn object.

8/12/2005 11:22 AM

429. As noted above, used for sampling bulk grain. Commonly called a "grain probe".

8/12/2005 2:57 PM

>426. A Slaters Hammer...

>428: A close up of a thermometer?

>425 A wagon Jack

>429 Used for taking samples of bulk grains etc.

These are all correct.

>424 For handling the lower loop of the cord that raises a flag up a flagpole.

Nope

>428 I agree on the thermometer.

Yes

>424. I'm thinking about flags for this one, too...

This one has nothing to do with flags.

>427 - A seam puller...

Nope

>429. As noted above, used for sampling bulk grain. Commonly called a "grain probe".

Correct

8/12/2005 3:32 PM

424 An early drapery hanger

8/13/2005 8:07 AM

>424 An early drapery hanger

It isn't for drapery hanging.

8/13/2005 9:02 AM

424. My mother once had something very much like this, but there was a cloth basket with a wire support that held clothes pins.

- Edward

8/16/2005 9:28 PM