Featured Wooden wotsits

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  1. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    OK, two thingies about a foot long, hand turned with some age.

    Care to speculate on purpose? I've no clue.

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  2. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Curtain closers.
    To reach up and close the curtains in high windowed high ceiling older houses.
     
    daveydempsey, May 8, 2015
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  3. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Cool! :)
     
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  4. Messilane

    Messilane Well-Known Member

    And nicer than using the tip of my cane like I now have to do. :)

    I think I will talk my husband into making me one of these.
     
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  5. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Let us know how that goes...... ;)
    If it gets done I'd like to see it. :)
     
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  6. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    AHA! Thank you davey. I might have known some genius here would solve it.
     
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  7. lauragarnet

    lauragarnet Well-Known Member

    Haha! Any little boy knows those are for playing 'sword fighting'.
     
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  8. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Indeed! May the farce be with you! ;)
     
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  9. lauragarnet

    lauragarnet Well-Known Member

    And Ninja Turtles!
     
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  10. Messilane

    Messilane Well-Known Member

    If I was a ninja, I wouldn't need these to close my curtains!
     
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  11. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Hahahsh
    ahaaaaaaaa!!!!!! I 'see' your point....
     
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  12. terry5732

    terry5732 Well-Known Member

    Wot's wrong with pulling the cord?
     
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  13. daveydempsey

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    Here curtains didn`t have a cord back then.
     
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  14. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    One's butler would have looked FAR more elegant with a wand.
     
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