Try To Stump Us! PART II.

The prices; not the items

Tin top at R1

oops - says what it is ^

Correct, R4.

Love this.

Did anyone get the Austin Farina car logo? I can’t read through this many posts

Wig holders and hole puncher

yes, R14

what are all these bizarre tools?

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Someone probably posted one of these already

Someone probably posted this already, too

R21: Bed warmer? You'd put hot coals or embers in the covered pan and run it between the sheets before going to sleep to warm the bed in cold weather.

Maybe not.

r25, bedside urinal.

R17 is a page splitter,R20 is a match safe or cigarette lighter,R222 is convict art,R25 is a urinal.

Yes R21 is a bedwarmer

No, it’s not convict art

Is R24 a spindle?

Unless we have posters working in one of three professions, no one is going to get mine at R12. They're optical axis-alignment pliers. The astigmatism correction in a pair of eyeglasses runs along an axis which has to be positioned correctly in front of the pupil, and the pliers are used to to make tiny adjustments to the position of the lenses once they're in the frame.

This one is more reasonable:

R29 it may not have started as convict art but I assure you it is now. Convicts make everything out of wrappers ,picture frames,purses,boxes,etc. Its an art form in there.

It’s a gum wrapper necklace that teen girls gave each other on their birthdays

Sorry, pre-teen, not teen, girls

R32 google "convict wrapper art " and concede you are WRONG . Or,we are both right.

Hint: it's not a mushroom.

I’m not wrong, I watched girls present each other with these gum wrapper necklaces in the 60s.

Creating gum wrapper chains is a fad that started in Canada in the 1960s. However, nearly a half-century later, it is still as popular as ever -- even permitting one man to make it into the Guinness World Records by having the longest chain of gum wrappers to date.

This....

R35: Trump's penis.

Jello 1-2-3!

As seen on TV

R30 are soft curlers for hair

R42 is a hot dog cooker

R18 is the punchcard you gave the paper boy when you paid him for your paper delivery.

We called them paper boys because they were boys, and they brought the paper. Don't hate.

Sorry, I was wrong. Didn't look closely enough. I'm old and can't see you know...

This thread is making me so happy. I want to go back and give my 8 year old self a big hug!

I don't think there's a way to show one without the label giving it away, oh well.

School daze

Free game with purchase

R54 Atari 2600 with Armor Battle cartidge.

R49 Fortune teller. I think I can still fold one.

R50 Peechee

R52 Carousel slide projector.

R53 Contact lense case.

It's a horrible picture but it's hard to find one without a legible name splashed across it.

R58 Dohickie for slicing bread

R54, the game was called Combat.

Yes, r60. It was the free gift with every bread machine ever purchased during the '90s.

And this one.

Hint: this is part of a DL fave's product line in the early '90s. It was based on something she did with wire hangers.

R63--French fries potato slicer.

R65 it has a name, do you know what it is?

R8... Pie crimper?

R22.. I made many of those necklaces.

Remember this? I burnt my sister's hair doing this.

Hair burner, r70?

The photo in the OP's post is a car cigarette lighter.

It slices! It dices! It's the Ronco Veg-O-Matic!

No one got this from the last thread:

R70 Speaking of Ronco, it's a pocket fishing reel.

What were these?

What are these kids doing?

R76 Prizes from Cracker Jack boxes.

Who is this?

R77: Winky Dink Magic Drawing Screen.

What was this guy's name?

R81 Howdy Doody. This is WAY too easy.

The gentleman in the middle and the dog on the right are?

R81... Jerry Mahoney

Specifically, Princess SummerFallWinterSpring. Now you identify r74, r82.

R76... They look like toys in the gumball machines. Sometimes you get gum, sometimes a toy.

R85 Pass on R74. I'm a city queer. I cheated and googled.

R75 Correct

R83... Paul Winchell.. man in the middle

R90 Sugar bowl or cake plate with cover

THINK: European café.

This was R313 from the prior thread: I don't see that it was ever guessed. It's gaslight lamp lighter.

[quote]Paul Winchell.. man in the middle

AKA, Lucky Pierre!

R81 is NOT Jerry Mahoney. Who is it?

LOL R92 - long way off!

R97 Bugger! Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh . .

R96 It is Jerry Mahoney. The guy in the middle of R83's image is Paul Winchell. And the dog is???

R100 No, R81 is not Jerry Mahoney.

R81 is Danny O'Day. R83 is Danny O'Day, Jimmy Nelson & Farfel.

CHOOOCK-late.

R97 I cheated and googled. R90 is way before even my time.

R91 looks like an album that holds 45 rpm singles.

Yes, R106

>>>>

R81 is NOT Danny O'Day

What about r83, r109?

R109 Read it and weep.

R108: Topo Gigio.

From first thread, this is an “answering machine remote” to retrieve your messages from a non-touch-tone phone.

R113 Corner protectors for pics in albums

R115 & R116 = YES

So I was right at r103, r112. and r109 is wrong?

CLUE: used to stop people running up a bill.

R118 YES!

R120 Stamp bottle. Save your tongue for other, more pleasurable pursuits than licking stamps.

R119 is a rotary dial lock.

R120 is an envelope/stamp moisture pad.

From the previous thread....it's a "Rubik's Magic" toy

R123 Side-view mirrors. Fucked if I know which model car.

[quote][R119] is a rotary dial lock.

yes

R81 is not Jerry Mahoney and he's not Danny O'Day.

R125 Ash tray

The tail-light of what iconic car?

[quote][R123] Side-view mirrors. Fucked if I know which model car.

yes

They were called "Bullet" wing mirrors.

added to all sorts of cars for the sporty look - especially these.

yes, R130

[quote]From first thread, this is an “answering machine remote” to retrieve your messages from a non-touch-tone phone.

I love the completeness and clarity of this answer.

r81 is Knucklehead Smiff. r83 is Danny O'Day, Jimmy Nelson and The Great Farfel.

R110 curling rollers?

R135 Very good R81 is indeed Knucklehead Smiff.

From the first thread, this was a line of “soace age” action figures, principal character was named Major Matt Mason.

So there are no old country boys here to know what this is?

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Some sort of steam engine, and the giant belt drives another piece of harvesting equipment (when it’s not busy tearing someone’s arm off). That’s as far as this city eldergay can guess.

R141 It's 2AM in California, 5AM in New York, everyone's at work in Europe and asleep in Oz/Enzed. Patience.

R144, correct. They are steam powered tractors. Note the guy with the shovel of coal in the first picture. They fell out of use in the early to mid 20th century but were much more powerful and versatile than modern tractors and are still prized and maintained. And you're right about the big belts: they are being used to drive threshing machines.

I grew up in rural North Carolina in the 1950s and I was fascinated and enthralled by these land riding locomotives.

R137 is correct.

[quote][R135] Very good [R81] is indeed Knucklehead Smiff.

Thank God. We can finally put that one to rest.

R131, is it a ford mercury cougar?

R149 Not even close.

r150 Edsel?

The dog with Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smiff, and/or Danny O'Day is named Farfel (which I believe someone else mentioned.

Here's Knucklehead.

All those 1950s/60s ventriloquists' dolls are creepy as hell. No wonder they feature in so many horror films.

No one got this on the previous thread.

When you click on the pic, the caption/heading tells you what it is, r153. (I'll leave it for others to reveal.)

Steam threshers

Trump's penis, r153. But the replica is far too large.

Dogpatchian

Yes, r155. We established that they are steam tractors being used to run threshing machines.

R151 No...not Edsel...way off.

r159 r131 Thunderbird?

This is the Edsel tail light I was misremembering:

They came in various forms but this was the classic style. What is it?

r161 Some kind of mic?

r159, r151 is a ventriloquest's dummy. There was an Edsel earlier in this thread or the previous one.

R160 No not Thunderbird.

R162 No not a mic.

R157: shmoo

AquaMarina from Stingray

Her....

[quote]AquaMarina from Stingray

Yes.

and now... her song.

from the last thread - unguessed.

I wish original posters would come back occasionally to confirm or deny guesses. A few do, and many thanks to them. But even more posters are hit-and-run.

we've had a record rack already

I think R140 are the nibs for a mechanical pencil. The "pencil" is a hollow cylinder and when one tip was used up, you'd pull the empty one out and the next would drop into place.

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Late to the game, but OP's pic is a car cigarette lighter

This was #8 from the first thread. I don’t think anyone figured out what it was.

Some of you had to be boys during the 1960s...and none of you know what R161 and R131 are?

Does anyone know what this is?

I tried, r178. I failed.

R175 Correct. They were called Pop-A-Point Pencils

What's this? Extra points if you know it's proper name.

Is R178 a typewriter key ?

Looks almost like the tweeter in the Bowers & Wilkins Matrix 800 series speakers (1990s). But it isn't.

r185 refers to r182.

Chrysler Turbine car, R131

Make-out steering crank, R179 (

r188 Batman water pistol.

Another one.

R189 Right.

For decades this was the logo to a product that many Americans (probably over half) at one time or another owned.

R187 is Sputnik.

What's this?

R196 is a Telstar satellite. The first orbital communications satellites that relelayed television, phone calls, etc in the 1960s.

Anyone know what this giant device is?

Andover Earth Station in Maine. Specifically, the antenna inside the dome below.

Knucklehead Smiff was the poor man's Mortimer Snerd.

These....

Home circumcision kit, R202?

"Body By Fisher". R195?

R204 Correct

R182 is the automatic headlight dimmer known as "Autronic Eye" that sat on the dashboards of Cadillacs.

R161 is a slot car racer control.

R183 that’s a great guess! I totally failed at figuring it out and I don’t even think anyone posted any guesses.

We had two '62s in the family at the same time, R205 I remember asking my grandpa about the pod, or nacelle, as he called it.

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Someone probably posted one of these already

Bottle opener R208.

Is R209 a DIY radio, like a nerdy kid would build with a bunch of copper wire?

R195 is the Body By Fisher logo. Their logo appeared on the door sill plates of all General Motors cars up until the 1990s.

R64 update

R64 is hardware for Sandra Lee’s “Kurtain Kraft” valance and curtain kits. All you needed was this plus yards & yards of flowered chintz.

What this be?

Well, bless your heart, r214. Wishing you all the bolts of Waverly Pleasant Valley chintz your heart desires!

R217: stockmarket ticker tape?

You're right, r211, but when I was growing up we called it a crystal radio or a crystal set.

Correct R218.

Repeat from the previous thread (no guesses):

Corret, R166.

R222 microfiche reader. Some could read microfilm as well.

R202 Since no one got it, I'll reveal what it is....it's Thrifty's unique ice cream scooper

I still don't know what R8 in the previous thread!

Whoever answers, use "R8" in your comment, ffs!

I believe that R8 is a pastry crimper and sealer.

R226 Yes that must be a pastry crimper. Also used for cutting ravioli.

The end opposite the wheel on the pastry crimper could also double as a bottle opener.

Hours of fun.

Fuck! Sorry about r230 not linking.

I guess there are plenty of kids today who have no idea what this was used for.

guuuurl, puhleease.

Is R221 the release valve on a steam radiator? I saw something like the chrome thing on the radiators in the home I grew up in. The darker part with the word 'Lenton' on it is a mystery though.

R221 is a dynamo for a bicycle (generates electricity for a light)

The ViewMaster was solved in the first thread. With the same photo.

R236, see r237.

R236 see r238.

R236 see R239.

[quote] [R209] a DIY radio

Yeah. Kids used to make them in the 1930s for fun & they’ve also been made as science projects.

Crystal radios date back earlier than the 1930s.

r239, I guess I'm dense but I don't understand your point in posting the various pics of a View-Master.

BTW, I still have mine, the white model pictured, in perfect working condition along with a lot of stereo picture sets.

what the hell is this??? i am trying to buy some but it is so "vintage: even google search with picture gives me bupkis.....actually gave me a mortar and pestel.....what?????

it is used to put cards or letters or papers in but i don't know what this precise one is called and there is no mark on it.....HALP!!

This sort of reminds me of the game show Liars Club. I apologize if this was referenced in the other thread.

R243, I've seen those used in diners, where they'd display the current specials for the week. "Remember, it's Pumpkin Pie Season!", "Don't forget the Strawberry Cheesecake", etc. This one is similar (although I didn't find a common name for it). Of course, not everyone on DL is familiar with American diners (I am).

It looks like they're called either table number holders (or stands) or place card holders, but in my googling I'm coming across mostly tall, flimsy-looking ones. This is the closest I've seen to yours, r243.

Yeah, they do a similar Liars Club thing on This Old House when a guys show some obscure tool and others try to guess what it is.

[quote] Crystal radios date back earlier than the 1930s

Yes, we know that, but they became a Cub Scout project in the 1930s.

R171 looks like a toy version of some amphibian vehicle from the Thunderbirds Gerry Anderson series.