Comments on: In the Archives: Ale and Beef http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/10/23/in-the-archives-ale-and-beef/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-the-archives-ale-and-beef it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Laura Bien http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/10/23/in-the-archives-ale-and-beef/comment-page-1/#comment-57214 Laura Bien Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:07:34 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=52196#comment-57214 Dave: Umm……………………………….no. :)

]]> By: Laura Bien http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/10/23/in-the-archives-ale-and-beef/comment-page-1/#comment-57213 Laura Bien Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:06:56 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=52196#comment-57213 Patti again: They do look like lamp finials! That is an excellent guess!

]]> By: Laura Bien http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/10/23/in-the-archives-ale-and-beef/comment-page-1/#comment-57212 Laura Bien Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:05:52 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=52196#comment-57212 Cosmonicon: They certainly resemble plumb bobs. The originals were also carved of wood.

]]> By: Laura Bien http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/10/23/in-the-archives-ale-and-beef/comment-page-1/#comment-57211 Laura Bien Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:05:04 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=52196#comment-57211 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 http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/10/23/in-the-archives-ale-and-beef/comment-page-1/#comment-57210 Laura Bien Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:03:56 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=52196#comment-57210 Teacher Patti: Well, it does not seem to have caught on… :)

]]> By: Laura Bien http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/10/23/in-the-archives-ale-and-beef/comment-page-1/#comment-57209 Laura Bien Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:03:22 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=52196#comment-57209 Phil Dokas: Very interesting; I hadn’t known that. Thank you for the info!

]]> By: Dave http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/10/23/in-the-archives-ale-and-beef/comment-page-1/#comment-56335 Dave Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:39:45 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=52196#comment-56335 Laura,

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

]]> By: TeacherPatti http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/10/23/in-the-archives-ale-and-beef/comment-page-1/#comment-56309 TeacherPatti Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:11:40 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=52196#comment-56309 They look like the little “nubbins” on top of light fixtures.

]]> By: cosmonıcan http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/10/23/in-the-archives-ale-and-beef/comment-page-1/#comment-56290 cosmonıcan Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:07:03 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=52196#comment-56290 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 http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/10/23/in-the-archives-ale-and-beef/comment-page-1/#comment-56274 cmadler Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:02:58 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=52196#comment-56274 With no sense of scale or indication of what they’re carved from, they have the look of earplugs.

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