What's this for?

oscarthefuzz · Post by **oscarthefuzz** » Wed May 09, 2012 6:52 pm

I bought an estate sale lot of handtools (and one power tool), thought I was pretty well able to work out what the purpose of most tools are but this one is confusing me.

They were all carpentry tools or my guess would have been that it is an antique hair curling iron but if anyone out there has knowledge of a carpentry use for it then answers on a postcard......

I think the pictures show it pretty well but just in case; it's like a scissors in the way it actions. one half of the business end closes into the other. One is basically a tube and the other is a hemisphere, they're a pretty good fit so can't see anything very thick being put in there. No maker's marks on it anywhere....

wa2crk · Post by **wa2crk** » Wed May 09, 2012 7:23 pm

Looks like a surgical clamp or some lady's curling iron.
Bill V

Billdit · Post by **Billdit** » Wed May 09, 2012 9:30 pm

This is easy... it is obviously a kidney stone extrator...

brad_nalor · Post by **brad_nalor** » Thu May 10, 2012 2:14 am

Guessing here but did that tool somehow get mixed into the carpentry tools? Perhaps a veterinarian instrument?

oscarthefuzz · Post by **oscarthefuzz** » Thu May 10, 2012 3:30 am

Strangely enough I live above a vets and my wife works in there as a tech and she said she's never seen anything like that...

foxtrapper · Post by **foxtrapper** » Thu May 10, 2012 6:40 am

Aunts got an old set of tools that look almost identical to that. Variety of sizes. They are her curling irons from when she was a young girl.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Thu May 10, 2012 2:21 pm

foxtrapper wrote:Aunts got an old set of tools that look almost identical to that. Variety of sizes. They are her curling irons from when she was a young girl.

Used with a wood/corn cob CI stove.

Like those CI irons we now use as door stops decorated with paint or embroidery.

oscarthefuzz · Post by **oscarthefuzz** » Thu May 10, 2012 6:42 pm

Ok going to call it a day on this one and call it a curling iron. Thanks for the responses...

robinson46176 · Post by **robinson46176** » Thu May 10, 2012 9:11 pm

Yes, curling iron. I have a couple just like it among our "collections". You know women were not the only one that used them. Men used them too, mostly for beards.

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