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I think ROMAC has the right idea. The strip hanging off the end is probably connected to a striker/igniter.
GMC(SW) - USN, Retired (1978-2001)
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I had to revisit this puzzle.
One clue was purchased by estates by the dozen.
So, it's something that gets commonly used up on an estate.
I'd like to change my guess to it being some sort of signal flare. It looks like it might be held by beaters as they beat.
I can't say if it's for their safety, or to better drive the birds ahead.
Out there doing it best I can.
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It's obviously a juicer for making jelly and jam to go on the crumpets and muffins...Geo
Could you post a picture of a crumpet, I've always wondered!
Last edited by Geo. Newbern; 05/26/15 01:09 PM. Reason: added something
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Last edited by El Garro; 05/26/15 01:54 PM.
Rust never sleeps !
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Many thanks El Garro! Another of life's mysteries put to rest...Geo
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If you ask for English Muffins in England you may find they do not know what they are. I only ever heard of them when I went to America. Lagopus.....
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walnut or nut buster. Bobby
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I'm going to have to nix the rolling pin idea as I seriously doubt any estate employed a dozen one armed bakers. However, I have been in a German village where a seriously gimp baker's fame has survived several hundred years!
Lots of ideas, but none worth typing.
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A number of you folks where extremely close and one did know what it was called. I was given two of them some thirty years ago and it was that don’t push the button syndrome, so don’t pull the tab on the top of the thing well I did not expecting the ancient thing to work IT DID!!!!! Emptied the Village pub with choking half blind people because of the fumes and I could not see for about an hour myself it consists of brilliant burning Magnesium for the light, the friction igniting compound has been removed from this one “once bitten twice shy”  
The only lessons in my life I truly did learn from where the ones I paid for!
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A common British problem. So this is some type of dental tool. Does it selectively knock out bad teeth? Small end for front teeth, large end for molars, used longwise to remove entire rows of teeth. National dental care at it's worst of you ask me.
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(from a Welshman)
