French Antique Guessing Game

French Antique Guessing Game 2014 April

 

What is a French antique guessing game?

I have these guessing games whenever I find something at the French brocante that I do not know what it is, or think you will not know what it is. Though in the twenty or so of these guessing games I have had in the last eight years one of you always figures it out.

Usually, the answer arrives within twenty four hours… only twice or three times did it happen that nobody come up with the winning response. In that case the guessing game goes on for a few days until a correct answer appears in the comment section.

I love it when I stump you! It makes me not feel so bad for not knowing either.

 

 

2014 French Antique Guessing Game

 

 

Here is how the French antique guessing game works:

Look at the photos on this post. If you know what it is or if you want to guess, give your answer in the comment section below, or send me an email.

The first person to write the name of the object and give a brief description wins.

Also there is a creative answer winner too. So in case you want to make something up, or weave a story about the object go ahead in the comment section too. A creative winner will be picked by yours truly after the correct answer is given.

 

Guessing Game French antiques

 

What is it.

The silver metal round disc like pieces are attached to a piece of board.

Wooden handles with metal rings are used with the round discs.

I don't give many details or clues… Photos are your best tool to figuring the guessing game out.

 

 

French antique Guessing Game What is it

 

1880 to the turn of the century item.

Let's play, give me a guess in the comment section.

The correct answer winner and the creative answer winner will win a sweet treat from France.

xx Happy Guessing!!



Comments

32 responses to “French Antique Guessing Game”

  1. umm just a guess. Anything to do with making buttons?

  2. Ali Moss

    Some kind of grommeting tool?

  3. Could they be biscuit or pastry cutters? The different sizes for different types of tarts, cookies, or breads. My first guess was a ring toss for OCD minds. 🙂

  4. This almost looks like a large eyelet punch.

  5. For working leather?

  6. Tool for making equally spaced eyelet holes for a corset?

  7. Before Lush came on the scene, bath bombs were made by hand by pressing a mixture of lavender, baking soda and a little beeswax into these forms. The large handles were to make larger bath bombs and the smaller… well you know… Thus the graded marks on the disks to mark depths/size of the said bath bombs.
    Provençal folk were ahead of their time even before l’Occitane made it on to the scene!

  8. Diogenes

    I don’t know, WR’s answer sounds pretty convincing, so I’ll go with roach clip for 10.
    …or a telephone circuit board.

  9. Basrbara

    I think it might have to do with sealing jars or opening them.

  10. I think it was used to make leather hats for fairies and elves. It was a time saver to be able to make 10 at a time

  11. jend’isère

    Button covering kit for both fabric and leather. Punching out covers for buttons requires 2 concentric rings. The inner to measure and the outer sharp edge to allow cutting a size to wrap around. PS Playing for the fun, plenty of sweets already.

  12. Madonna used it to mold the cups for her costume. She needed 10 for her world tour.

  13. Diane Anderson

    French cupcake holder display~ the tools are for making fancy frosting designs

  14. Perfect for this time of the year! It’s an Easter Egg (Pâques Oeufs?) display. It holds and helps display the handiwork of the egg craftsmen and women. 😉

  15. Joann Burnham

    Soap or butter or wax molds…variable sizes

  16. Homemade game board??? Clarice

  17. Dana Smith

    It’s a mold to make Pasties for strippers!

  18. Two guesses…. A milliners tool set for making different sized pressed shapes for hats OR a tool set for making sets of double breasted metal buttons

  19. ooh… or an antique grommet machine. You can make different sized circular grommets!

  20. whooops. just saw that Ali Moss already guessed grommets…

  21. Gretchen Seibert

    Breast cup molds for Valkyrie opera singers. (This is supposed to be the creative, ahem – funny – entry.)

  22. This is used to count to a metric dozen, or what we refer to as Ten. The handles are used to swedge the ends of whatever is counted in the concentric circles which also size the components for sorting. In Albania this is, I believe, called a smib while in some Scandanavian countries it is a smeebe. The English and most Americans call it a dohickey or in some cases a dimble press.

  23. Violet Cadburry

    candle molds?

  24. Samantha

    A cast for candle holders???

  25. This is the tool box of a chandelier maker. The forms are for making the different sized metal dishes/receptacles that the candles and then electric lights sat in.

  26. Oh my, Corey, this is a difficult one!
    Some pretty plausible guesses have already been mentioned…
    At first, I thought of an ancient telephone exchange, but the cords are missing.
    Or are those pieces of a Table football game – with the figures gone?
    Maybe those are forms that were initially used to coil metal springs for spring mattresses and sofas?
    Sheesh, I don’t know…

  27. A seal maker? Like signet, ring, I’m a king and this is my letter to you kind of seal??
    I also thought candle stick mold, but that was already mentioned…

  28. It makes the matal part needed for the center of a wagon wheel.

  29. It’s some kind of press, perhaps to make cloth covered buttons.

  30. Is it a tool used to make curtain rings of different sizes?

  31. Or..is it a punch tool used to cut out the metal wine/champagne capsule tops of corks?

  32. Remember those ol pointy bras? Well this is what they used to form those metal cups so the boobies would stand straight out!

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