It is wrong to believe that individuals in the past were less creative than you and me. Their imagination was rich enough to produce a wide range of items, some of which were useful and others, well, very weird.
There was, for example, a reusable body washing pill that was also inherited. There were vehicle vases, an applause volume measuring gadget, a pocket sundial, a toaster fork, and other oddities.
Here you will find a small variety of vintage accessories, the purpose of which many modern people are unsure about at first appearance.
11. A car vase
10. A reusable cocktail pick
9. A device for dialing a rotary phone
8. A mechanical circular calculator
7. A hooked ice pick
6. Victorian ice cream spoon
5. A toy washing machine
4. A pocket sundial
3. A perfume flask necklace
2. “An egg shell topper cutter — found this under the floor of a nineteenth-century house.”
1. The Clap-o-Meter
Do you have any strange old things like this lying around your house?
