unknown antique item

[ck80]

I have a house in Queens, NY that was part of the Underground Railroad.

From the outside it is a 3 story building.

But inside between the 2nd and 3rd floor there is an actual hidden staircase in the wall on the 2nd and on the floor of the 3rd that goes to a hidden floor in between the 2 where refugee slave were hidden.

Not every house with a hidden cook lab was part of the railroad however 😛

 

[565bbchevy]

It's a 1st generation prototype of my lint roller.

 

[TURNA]

Well if its heavy maybe it was a blackjack to wack the cracker!!!!

 

[CopperNick]

Almost looks like part of an old Chemists tool. Together with the matching bowl, the combination was known as a Mortar and Pestle. Pre-drug store and pre-made medicines, Doctors and Apothecaries had to mix and blend their own remedies using the raw ingredients and mixing them according to whatever recipe sat in front of them. The mechanism used to grind or reduce certain components from their as picked state to a more useable form was the Mortar and Pestle; usually some type of stone in line hammer with a large ball shaped end, together with a large deep bodied container to hold and retain whatever was being ground. The method was to add raw material to the bowl and then use the mortar to either pound on it or in a twisting motion to extract the desired element. There were variants, some used to grind small amounts of grain to produce corn meal or oat meal for cooking, and others for coffee, pre mechanical grinder. They still exist albeit in a more refined format. You can see them in labs, made from ceramics or fired clay/porcelain.

 

[TURNA]

Cracker wacker for sure!

 

[Wraith]

Looks like the suction cup is petrified

 

[fleming442]

Cracker wacker for sure!

Stolen from the pharmacy!

 

[jlcustomz]

By the hex shape part, looks like it could possibly unscrew. I think nicks answer sounds most likely.
I know I've said it before , but I now check here first before el camino central as to whassup. Definitely more interesting here.

 

[Clutch]

Looks to me like a rug beater a pestle wouldn't be made of leather. It could also be a stone Mason mallet for carving fine details into stone it would be used to drive the iron pointer. But I really have no idea LoL 😂

 

[denny]

By the hex shape part, looks like it could possibly unscrew. I think nicks answer sounds most likely.
I know I've said it before , but I now check here first before el camino central as to whassup. Definitely more interesting here.

this thing is way too heavy to be used for hand mixing. the leather and top can be turned about a quarter turn. the center is wrapped in leather. the handle is also wrapped in leather strands. it just seems like it is a tool of some kind. the top is notched like it fits into something but not any ware there. like it should come apart. you can hold the top and the part just under the leather wrapping and it wants to turn about an inch. really strange.