Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: jimwrench on July 18, 2012, 05:11:32 PM
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Saw heel spurs post on church keys and remembered this little oddity. Don't think its a church key but don't know its function. About 1/32 thick and very stiff. Oddly enough I bought it in Lincoln Il but do not know what (The Sheets Home) is.
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Looks like a bottle opener maybe the point is to open a can bob w.
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That is odd looking, I agree with bottle opener part but the point no clue.
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do not know what (The Sheets Home) is.
From a Lincoln obit, it seems to be a funeral home.
"Lincoln Evening Courier & Lincoln Herald, Lincoln, Illinois
Friday December 13, 1929 pg 1 col 4"
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"A short service will be held at the Sheets Funeral Home at 12:30 Saturday
afternoon and at the First Methodist church at 1 o'clock. Rev. O. L. Unger
will be in charge. Burial will be in the Atlanta cemetery.
The body will remain at the Sheets Home until the hour of the service at the
church."
I suppose after sitting through a funeral, a cold one would be a good idea......
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how about for opening a bottle of milk the old ones the glass bottle with a cardboard cap
Craig
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I remember the old Falstaff metal beer cans, and lots of workers just punched a round hole on both sides of the top. One for vent, one for the mouth.
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I remember the old Falstaff metal beer cans, and lots of workers just punched a round hole on both sides of the top. One for vent, one for the mouth.
Not that I know anything about this but I believe that is how they are smoking crack these days or whatever they are doing now adays
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Could be but from Rusty's search this is probably 1920-1930 vintage. Don't think they had crack then.As a giveaway for a funeral home in that era you would think it might be something a little more wholesome. Maybe something to open your sasparilla.
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I remember the old Falstaff metal beer cans, and lots of workers just punched a round hole on both sides of the top. One for vent, one for the mouth.
No, you must be remembering that wrong. Because Miller just "invented" that concept a few months ago, heh heh.
(http://www.summitbeverage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Punch-Top3.png)
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Looks like a bottle opener maybe the point is to open a can bob w.
I think bottle opener only. Remember that some bottles came with a foil wrapper over the top? The pointy thing could be for ripping around the wrapper.
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>some bottles came with a foil wrapper over the top?
Ahh..like champaign.
Perfect thing for after a funeral,
while opening the will
to see what the old bugger left you ;P
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>some bottles came with a foil wrapper over the top?
Ahh..like champaign.
Perfect thing for after a funeral,
while opening the will
to see what the old bugger left you ;P
Well, kinda like champagne. But more like Bohemia Ale or Negra Modelo lager.
For funerals, a Black Velvet is most appropriate. Invented for the funeral of Prince Albert, a Black Velvet is 50/50 Guinness and Champagne. Surprisingly good.