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14th August 2015, 05:07 PM
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"Ancient" Ottoman (?) Ramrod : Age ?
I have this also for quite some time and thought it looked like a tool to remove bullets "out off" a person ;-)
Does anybody have an idea, how old it could be. 31cm Last edited by castellum aquilonis; 14th August 2015 at 07:34 PM. |
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14th August 2015, 06:11 PM
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Oops--no attachment with this one! OK, now we do.
Last edited by Ian; 14th August 2015 at 07:09 PM. |
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14th August 2015, 08:20 PM
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Old Medical Instrument?
Just a guess....I do not think this is a ramrod. As you suggest it looks like something to remove "foreign matter" from ones body. An old medical instrument maybe? I am assuming that the prongs are metal?
What is the purpose of the threaded piece in the middle? Does it, or did it, screw into the other piece? If this IS a piece of medical kit it would be getting up to 200 years old IMHO. Stu |
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14th August 2015, 09:26 PM
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Its a ottoman ramrod ,made in end of 18th century. I think it has lost half case and has go out the tweezer.
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14th August 2015, 09:52 PM
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look up suma you will find enough complete ones to identify
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15th August 2015, 06:27 AM
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Not sure I understand the comments above.
If this is a ramrod missing it's end, then what is the purpose of the "tweezer"? Same question...if it is a ramrod, why is there a thread in the middle of what is left? Surely if it is the end which is missing, then the thread would be there and not in the middle? These are not a familiar item to me, so I am asking to learn about something new. Stu |
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14th August 2015, 08:30 PM
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