Comments on: In the Archives: Ale and Beef

By: Laura Bien

Laura Bien — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:07:34 +0000

Dave: Umm……………………………….no. :)

By: Laura Bien

Laura Bien — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:06:56 +0000

Patti again: They do look like lamp finials! That is an excellent guess!

By: Laura Bien

Laura Bien — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:05:52 +0000

Cosmonicon: They certainly resemble plumb bobs. The originals were also carved of wood.

By: Laura Bien

Laura Bien — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:05:04 +0000

cmadler: Good point: I should have included a ruler as I try to remember to do. Thank you for the reminder. Good guess but I’m afraid they are not earplugs.

By: Laura Bien

Laura Bien — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:03:56 +0000

Teacher Patti: Well, it does not seem to have caught on… :)

By: Laura Bien

Laura Bien — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:03:22 +0000

Phil Dokas: Very interesting; I hadn’t known that. Thank you for the info!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:39:45 +0000

Laura,

The mystery items appear to be Civil War Era “wooden bullets”.

By: TeacherPatti

TeacherPatti — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:11:40 +0000

They look like the little “nubbins” on top of light fixtures.

By: cosmonıcan

cosmonıcan — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:07:03 +0000

I would guess they are plumb-bobs, purpose unknown. The hand carved versions shown are probably much less precise than the originals, which were likely machined out of brass or iron.

By: cmadler

cmadler — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:02:58 +0000

With no sense of scale or indication of what they’re carved from, they have the look of earplugs.