I'm with Ned on shoe horn. An optimistic appraisal you originally received I think.
Looks more like a cormorant head than an eagle.
It is NOT a riding crop, believe me I know. On the riding crops you have seen, you will have noticed that some have a head similar to the one you show here, so I know where your coming from. But do you know what it's for???
I'll tell you, it's for opening and closing gate latches. The item you show is nowhere big enough or strong enough (let's remember that a pencil nearly dwarfs it...) Furthermore, it appears that it has not been "broken in half" as the end shows no sign of being snapped, it's actually looks like it's been finished (perhaps you could take another pic to confirm this), and still has a ring of glue around it where the spoon of a shoe horn was fitted. The birds head with the hooked beak is used to pull a boot on by the loop at the back of the ankle.
Please believe me, this is not, and never will be, anything like you think/wish it it to be other than a broken shoe horn (though i'm sure you could repair it should you feel driven to.)
Regards, Ned.
'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
There is no connection to SS other than possibility of Stainless Steel being used :-)
Or maybe SS stands for super short or simply short stick.
Last edited by meyle77; 03-26-2013 at 05:02 PM.
My, Grandmother... what a BIG pencil you have there!
Hello,
I am trying to identify a swagger stick i inherited does anyone know how i go about this?
'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
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