What Is It? for 1/13/2013

How about a diamond grading table.

Thanks for the chart, I'll pull my girl in the oposite direction whenever I see one of these.

It looks similar to grooved tools used by pharmacists to sort and count pills, but being in a slide drawer with no collection point would indicate otherwise.

The tray containing the letters looked like this - the mystery image is the tray where the page was set.

I agree Note the colors staining the inside

Its an draftsman/artist's pencil storage drawer?

To store pencil lead

Perhaps it is used to hold glass slides with specimen samples on the slides. For teaching microscopy and/or histology.

Table with a wash board drawer.

yes I think it what they used to wash clothing. wet shirt put on then soaped with bar type soap and rubed.

My first thought was that it's one of those old washboards that women once used for washing the clothes down at the river bank. That was before we menfolk took pity on them and invented the washing machine.

But witout being able to see the whole image, I think #1 is proabably right. I think washboards were made of tin or galvanized steel, and this doesn't look like either of those.

I would agree with Txmedic, as that was my first thought, too. But the knobs are telling me different. Those kinds of knobs, if original, would be something for display or perhaps something a woman would have. Also the lack of ink stains seems to say it's not for printing. Perhaps it's a means to store various knitting needles?

Those kinds of knobs, if original, would be something for display or perhaps something a woman would have.

Lets try and keep this forum decent.

I would hazard that it contained glass tubes, rods etc. for laboratory set-ups.

Reminds me of an old drill index. Cool old piece of furniture!

Hi to all,

It sounds over-simplistic, but years ago I worked for a manufacturer who, in their manufacturing process, needed to have pieces of tape for packaging and assembly. The maintenance group made a board similar to this, just spaced cross-cuts on a board. The line workers would lay lengths of tape from a roll across the length of the board and cut across with a utility knife, netting hundreds of pieces of tape within easy reach.

Kind regards ...

Is it for pill making

I saw something like this on a TV show. It was used for holding cigars as they were hand rolled.

Any chance that it was used for candle making?

A table used in a dental lab, possibly. I see wax that is the color of the stuff they use to make the forms to hold the teeth. I suppose it could be used for candle making, but the flat table in front of the slots is an area that must have been used as a work bench. So I am leaning toward something used for dental work. Especially making teeth. I used to do that a few years back, interesting work - you would be surprised how many shades of yellow there are in teeth.

Jimmy Hoffa's (nee Tammy Faye Baker) makeup drawer.

"Can you guess what this was used for?"

That there is a jig used for attaching prepositions to the ends of questions. The grooves in the top surface held the questions in place whilst the glue dried.

This practice has long since has fallen out of favor, however, which explains the jig's presence in an antique shop, right next to the movable-type furniture.

<splarf> It's the ER Grammaticator Engine (with apostrophe draws) #1 ?

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The problem remains - I nearly typed 'drawers'.

I'm going to take a guess here. I'll guess it is used by dental technicians when they made up the wax models for crowns and dentures. It would store similar tools that the dentists use, and the wax they would need. The wood platform is their workspace.

Sorry LakeGRL, didn't mean to try to steal your answer. I didn't read your post well enough when I wrote mine. I personally know a dental tech.

Is it a bento box for spaghetti?

Oh, come on...

Oregoon in #10 got it right. Felt right, looked right, sounded right, and now it is identified as being right. I already voted GA, can't give him another.

its scarfaces pre made line drawer just open and away you blow lmao