Comments on: An old piece of Americana at the Sloane-Stanley Museum, but what is it?

By: Jeff Branch

Jeff Branch — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:37:54 +0000

I am going to say that it was a early attempt at a beater bar for a vacuum cleaner.

Woodworking — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:52:56 +0000

It has to be a grinder of some sort, of what sort is a whole other matter lol.

Dustin DuFault — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:43:44 +0000

A cotton jig???

Steve — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:52:37 +0000

I am going to guess that this was a tool for grinding chestnuts, hazelnuts, or butternuts.

Nephita — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:58:02 +0000

Greetings from Brazil!

I´m guessing that´s a meat grinder or some other kind of grinder.

Cheers

Bob Easton — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:27:18 +0000

Well, there are no monkeys, so it must not be an organ grinder’s barrel organ.

And… since there’s no input bowl, I guess it’s not a cherry pitter either.

I won’t hazard other guesses.