French Antique Guessing Game

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French Antique Guessing Game

 

 French Antique Guessing Game:

Okay I think you know how this works,

1) Put your guess in the comment section or by email.

2) You can guess as many times as you want.

3) If you do not know what this make up a creative guess.

4) The first person to guess the item by name and purpose wins.

5) The guess I deem most creative wins too.

6) Winners receive some little thing, to celebrate their guesses, by mail.

7) I will announce the winners tomorrow.

xoxo 

 

 

 



Comments

56 responses to “French Antique Guessing Game”

  1. Dana Madsen

    Skull shapes for the art of taxidermy.

  2. That’s what I was going to say! I think they are molds for casting skull shapes for small critters and birds for taxidermy.

  3. measuring ‘spoons’ for . . . medicinal purposes

  4. Agree with taxidermy moulds. Maybe also forms for papier mache animals, very detailed marionettes.

  5. Rebecca from the pacific northwest

    1. Codpiece for a mouse. Or for a creature of the proper proportion.
    2. The only existing skulls in the world of the now-extinct creature, the fox-alligator, that looks like a fox but that only sticks its head halfway up from the water.
    3. Or a roach clip. Just because anything can be that.

  6. Half of a dried gourd used to pour potions into bottles or maybe tea into a cup.

  7. Anatomically-correct molds for marzipan?

  8. Sacred saint relics.

  9. When a group of tiny aliens left this planet about 125 years ago, they forgot to pack their bicycle seat molds. You can tell that some of them had real special bottoms.

  10. Diogenes

    Well I was going to say aliens until i read the comment above, lol. Is the second picture molds for high heeled shoes?

  11. Diogenes

    lol. 🙂

  12. Ana María

    Molds for duck decoys.

  13. I thought no they are early Madeleine molds. After many years someone perfected them into a multi Madeleine pan.

  14. Well, I suppose they could be molds for the top of a duck’s head, used when making decoys.
    But, actually, they are codpieces for small boys or very poorly endowed gentleman, to wear beneath their hose for protection. I mean, really, isn’t that obvious?

  15. They may also be used when serving the very special dishes cooked using very special small birds. This is the top part, to cover the delicious brains. The mold would be covered with feathers to make it look as though it was still an intact head.
    Oh, Corey! You are bringing out the nasty in me.

  16. Margo Lyn Carlson-Bailey

    Assayers or jewellers crucibles?

  17. Julie W.

    Shells from some type of exotic nuts.

  18. A canard de malade, used to pour broth or medicine into the mouth of someone who is lying down.
    But I don’t get the numbers….

  19. 1) Rejected molds from a fortune cookie factory.
    2) Protection devices for broken noses.
    Lack of sleep produces guesses like these…

  20. lanmangina@me.com

    I know I know it’s a 19th century Mr. Potato head game!

  21. Jacklynn Lantry

    Totally stumped. The codpiece guess made me laugh out loud, as did Mr. Potato Head (those things ARE eerily similar to MPH. at first I thought taxidermy, but the canard de malade looks/sounds right.

  22. Carved from grape vines, for tasting wine, either that or a primitive diaphragm.

  23. Could they be molds for the little knob on the top of a walking cane?

  24. charland

    Oh, I knew what they were, I just can’t remember what it was. But I think it was something to do with eating snails – maybe or such.

  25. For slurping oysters….
    feeding ill patients… (certainly the really fancy ones with a head….)
    For forming shoulder pads….
    I’m tired hungry and clueless!!!!

  26. I think they are nose molds for the masks worn at carnival in Venice-those scary but oh so enchanting works of art….

  27. Ana María

    A canard de malade was the answer to another “Antiques guessing game” posed by Corey several years ago. I know, because I guessed it back then!

  28. Perhaps they are molds for the shaping of silk flower petals. I do love the cod piece stories.

  29. Bicycle seat covers

  30. They look just like geoducks which are what clams come in….we see them in the states in the Pacific Northwest often.

  31. Ooh I think that Margo’s idea of them being jeweler’s crucibles may be correct. Certainly a lot of imaginative ideas from others!

  32. Patty N.

    OK, I had to look this one up. Are they different sizes and shapes for making a custom pessary?

  33. Miss Bunny

    Must agree – look like the tops of bird skulls to me

  34. They look like little baby boy protective cups, no?

  35. Oh don’t get them started with the roach clip! lol

  36. I thought that too, but they are very small.

  37. So many clever guesses!! Maybe mold for the plaster work on ceilings…….or tiny little fairy boats for May Day…..

  38. Meant molds….

  39. Ermine skulls

  40. Animal teeth, probably molds since they are cut in half and hollow

  41. Marilyn M

    Miniature “hounds of hell’ masks/moulds for carnival or lent. Very eerie looking. Or baby greyhound masks.

  42. Brenda Locklear

    I agree with many on here….I think they are mold heads for walking canes…

  43. Noses for taxidermy animals.

  44. Janet Eiffel

    If all three items work together………
    Probably instructions from the church
    for the use of the little cup things
    to be used for “cupping” to
    remove evil spirits from the body of
    possessed person.

  45. Spice scoops, of course.

  46. pc Brown

    I’ll venture a guess these are used as vessels (perhaps very humble and or travel size) for holy water or anointing oils to consecrate or otherwise bless, baptise, or whatever a person needing such an ordinance. Or perhaps they are incredibly small oil lamps?

  47. Rebecca from the pacific northwest

    Sorry, couldn’t resist. It’s a tradition. And now that Diogenes has encouraged me with and lol, look out.

  48. Rebecca from the pacific northwest

    I like this one a lot.

  49. Rebecca from the pacific northwest

    This one is alarmingly plausible.

  50. Rebecca from the pacific northwest

    Looking forward to The Big Reveal!

  51. Here we go again…lol

  52. I would agree, but no, close, but no.

  53. Those were good guesses!!!

  54. I could see that being true.

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