I love weird stuff! Especially those weird things from the past. I also greatly appreciate the beauty and artistry of even the simplest object from long ago. Our modern, fast-paced, factory produced industries — while wonderful in so many ways (lower cost being a big bonus) — typically do not create with the skill and attention to aesthetics as the hand-made artisans from the days of yore. For today’s post I will be sharing a handful of unusual, no-longer as necessary objects, along with others that have (thankfully) evolved into improved designs. To add to the fun, try guessing what the thing is before clicking to reveal the name and purpose.
I hope everyone enjoyed these weird, interesting objects.
Tell me how many you were able to guess correctly before clicking the spoiler box?
If this type of post is of particular fascination, tell me so in the comments below
and I’ll keep digging for more weird stuff to share!
You’re right. The images are curious and fascinating. I’m good for the curling irons, but that’s about it.
Those are really fun, Sharon! The only one I got right was curling irons 🙂
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing so many examples.
Thanks for sharing these items. It was so much fun guessing what the item was and I am happy that I was able to correctly guess two of them.
This was fascinating. I figured the first one held coals but didn’t make the connection as foot-warmer. I guess I was still thinking of the bricks. I completely missed the others. I thought the brushes were clothes brushes. That was pretty ingenious to have crumb brushes. I completely missed the baby feeders. Wow! That was amazing. The curling irons were pretty obvious. This was fun. I like trying to figure out things. Let’s do this again.
Don’t know exactly what I was thinking, but the foot warmers I thought would be space heaters. A little before their time. I thought the Crummers were simply small hand brooms and a dust pan like for small messes. I didn’t think of table crumbs still on the table, though. Had no clue whatsoever about the baby feeders. I finally decided the were strange flower vases. The bottles were kind of odd looking, though I guessed ok there. TaDa! I knew the curling irons! Though I never knew they used them on beards! How modern the last two are! It looks like a crimper and a ringlet curler. And the ornate one has a very modern styling.
I really enjoyed this. Thank you!
I enjoyed this segment. Unfortunately I didn’t get lucky to even guess one. the baby bottles looked very weird and i am there with you…questioning how clean each before the next feeding. Thank you for this post…hope you can share more
Pretty interesting. Curling irons, crumb brush, a clothes brush. baby bottles but I thought either the mothers or the nannies breast fed babies. One of the bottles has the tip of a enema?????
I guessed the curling iron but wasn’t sure about the foot warmers or bottles!lo! I bet babies had an interesting time trying to drink from those things! I hope you find more weird stuff it makes a fun guessing game!
I recognized the warmers and curling tongs. Thanks for the fascinating post!
I got the the curling tongs, and I had the general idea with the foot warmers (I realized the holes meant they probably put coals in them, but didn’t realize where they would be used). The other two were totally new to me. I love the weird historical posts. You could do stuff like this every month and I’d be happy! Bed-stretchers are one I’ve certainly always been grateful not to need. And chamber pots.
Funny that curling irons really haven’t changed that much… I was at a nice hotel restaurant in downtown Denver where the waiter used a flat metal scraper to clean crumbs. That is the first time I had ever seen someone do that. Not sure what that says both about me AND the hotel. Definitely some interesting stuff.
I only got two. The foot warmers and the curling irons. I thought the crumb brushes were actually clothes brushes and I’m afraid my guess for the baby feeders was novelty decanters!
Thanks for this entertaining post Sharon.
The curlling iron is the only one I got. I thought the baby feeders were perfume bottles:) Imagine going out smelling like that 🙂
I looked at the curling iron the wrong way. I took the handles for the prongs.
The things that look as though they are broken in two aree a set of crumb removers. The smaller one pushes crumbs across the table cloth to the larger piece . between courses or before the cloth is removed.
The bottom items look like toasting forks.
Haven’t looked yet.
What fun, Sharon. I guessed the curling irons and the middle box for heating. However, because it had the grid raised above the box, I thought it might have been for heating the bed sheets in winter. But I think I remember that they used a pan with a long handle instead for that. In other words, I missed most of them. Let’s do it again. It’s fun to try and guess what they are and finding out how far off we are. 🙂