What is this????????????

[Magnus Jensen]

Since there is so many knowledgeable engravers please help me if some one can!
This item was found among the tools of a past away Swedish engraver that was working in France for many years. The material is some kind of stone.
If anyone knows what it used for and how it is used please help me to bring some light in the matter.

 

[Abigail]

It's a lighter from the 7 eleven store, with a thingy above it.
Abigail

 

[fegarex]

No wonder Sam has no hair!!!
He has pulled it out of his head from your snappy responses...
Not only was that a good response but fast!

 

[Mike Cirelli]

That thingy is a skinny turd.




No seriously it looks like a burnisher.

 

[Magnus Jensen]

THANK`S Abigail people like you makes life so easy!
I have to hand it to you thou YOU ARE QUICK.
And I have learned this now for sure, keep the tung straight in the mouth and the guard up high when visiting the café since Abigail can be on line!!
But now when we have cleared the question marks on the mysteries thing called "lighter" one thing in the picture is still unknown, at least for me.

 

[Peter E]

Looks like a stone used like the "pencil" stones that coin carvers use to texture metal surfaces.

Just a guess.

Peter

 

[loyd freeman]

You guys are all wrong,It,s a double ended " Thingy " and they are quite RARE. Loyd

 

[sam]

I've seen stones like this used by printmakers and engravers for stoning slips, etc. I'm guessing that's what it is.

Abigail's right, the other object is definitely a cigarette lighter from 7-11. They can be easily identified by the 7-11 logo on the front.

~Sam

 

[Jim-Iowa]

Another reason I enjoy this forum. It is educational, I did not know 7-11 had stores in Sweden.
That is a neat stone too.

 

[Steve Adams]

Sam is correct, but there could be more to this. This is either an abrasive file or slip which a toolmaker would most likely have or even someone sharpening gouges. There are probably multiple uses once you start to think about it. The tapered stones are still available but mostly one sided that I know of. This double ended one may not be as common. It is also not unusual for stones to be modified, another possibility. Time to do a net search. The item with the logo is a mystery. Steve A.

 

[jlseymour]

If the stone looks like it has been used as a sharping stone and has ware I would think it was for sharping a wood engravers round gravers.
Does it have a flat side???
JL Seymour

 

[Tim Wells]

When I was a kid I picked up a rock just about like this one at Kentucky Lake and it was so perfect I asked my Grandpa what it was. We used to go arrow head hunting all the time on all that farmland. He told me it was a "bunghole stopper".

I said "a what?" He said the indians used them to plug their back ends up when they went to war so they wouldn't have to "go" while they were fightin'. He was a cross between John Wayne and Andy Griffith only in real life. I reckon that was the Andy Griffith like side showing it's jestful self that time.

 

[Ken Hurst]

Lord Miss Abi ---- you are a hoot.

 

[Abigail]

Lord Miss Abi ---- you are a hoot.

Thank you very much!
Abigail
P.S. I never know if I'm going to get in trouble with the administrator when I post things like that.

 

[John B.]

Miss Abigail.
Ladies Lib aside............ getting in trouble...... not you!!!!!
I'm sure you remember...........
"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world."
And Sam doesn't look like a cradle rocker to me.

Sam, I did a bunch if those with nice scroll around the logo and they sold like hotcakes...... for 15 cents each.

 

[lesholmes]

I have seen amazing objects with curved bottoms like the thingy. It may be just an interesting object. If it is the sort of thing I have seen before, you can put the curved side on a slick surface then spin it one direction, then the other. When you spin it in its perfered direction, it just spins; when you spin it in the other direction, it stops and then spins in the other direction.

I will be interested to know if it is that sort of object.

Thanks.

Les Holmes
Montgomery, Alabama

 

[Ron Smith]

Abigail, that is what I was going to say!..........Oh wait a minute!!!... Maybe its a swingy dingy blingy thingy and a lighter.........Ron S

 

[Magnus Jensen]

If the stone looks like it has been used as a sharping stone and has ware I would think it was for sharping a wood engravers round gravers.
Does it have a flat side???
JL Seymour

No, JL there is not even a tendens to flatnes anywhere.

 

[longarmy]

What is this????

I guess, it is an agate burnisher for gold inlay. Burnish the gold just after high grit sandpaper.
CJ

 

[Magnus Jensen]

Thanks everyone, even Abigail, for helping me out with this thingi.
In my search on this engraver I did discover today that his specialty was medal engraving.
So what Peter wrote, "pencil stone", could be the task this thingi is for.

Thank´s to all!

Magnus