Nancy Reading wrote:We haven't had a game recently, so here's one!
Actually, obviously this is a box - it's a small wooden box, so the game is to guess what it is used to contain. I think Permies will appreciate the low tech nature of this, which is used everyday.
I think it is made of oak and is at least 70 years old, possibly a few decades more.
Here it is laid out with a ruler (cm) for scale:
The bit of wood inside is a bit that broke off the top, which would have prevented the lid going straight across, obviously over the year this has become broken off. I'm thinking of using some small panel pins to fix it, but don't want to damage it further.
Morfydd St. Clair wrote:
Hm. It looks a bit like something for transporting queen bees, except the holes would be really big. Aren't there boxes where you stop up the holes with wax and the drones chew through to get to their queen?
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Anne Miller wrote:Nancy, that box reminds me of Cribbage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage
If it is not for cribbage then my guess is some sort of game.
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Pearl Sutton wrote:Only half inch deep holes? What's underneath the holey part then?
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Robert Ray wrote:looks like 48 large holes and 18 small holes. Top looks like it might have some kind of inky residue. as well as the interior of the box. Alpha numeric stamp holder
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Robert Ray wrote:So the top holes hold spacers?
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Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
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Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
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Tereza Okava wrote:i would think aside from party favors, that is for toppings for ice cream at a buffet. remember the Sizzler, Ponderosa, Old Country Buffet, etc? (I was obsessed with that kind of place as a kid)... something like that. we have a lot of "ice cream bars" here that have toppings you can add (then you pay by weight at the end)-- those seem perfect.
I don't suppose you got a pic of the bottom and/or there was any writing?
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And he said, "I want to live as an honest man, to get all I deserve, and to give all I can, and to love a young woman whom I don't understand. Your Highness, your ways are very strange."
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Robert Ray wrote:Is that a very old footprint?
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Kristine Keeney wrote:Is it a type of rare bird?
A type of bird?
If it's a mammal, I'm way off, but there are only so many critters that are limited to certain areas with the Isle of Sky being one of them ...
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Shea Loner wrote:The easy reply of Dinosaur doesn't count?
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Kristine Keeney wrote:Is it a type of rare bird?
A type of bird?
If it's a mammal, I'm way off, but there are only so many critters that are limited to certain areas with the Isle of Sky being one of them ...
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Phil Swindler wrote:I'm thinking something before mammals were big enough to make that track.
I'm think something between 70 & 180 million years ago.
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Phil Swindler wrote:
Shea Loner wrote:The easy reply of Dinosaur doesn't count?
Without a measurement and a better image, it's hard to say which one.
Unless you are way better than me, or know what rock layer that is from.
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Phil Swindler wrote:At this point, I'd say Pterosaur. I'm not enough of a paleontologist to say which one.
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Nancy Reading wrote:I'm thinking not. Maybe my chicken reference was misleading you. I think these dinosaurs didn't fly.
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