"riverman" wrote in message
ps.com...
Check out the first device on this page:
http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/

So far, no one has been able to figure out what it is, although some
interesting observations have been made so far.


I'll take a stab at it and guess a handheld Fluting Iron. It's design is to
press pleats into fabrics which are first starched. They are used in putting
flutes into cuffs, collars and other places where pleats were needed. The
fluting iron were first made back in the 1860's through the 1880's.
fwiw,
-tom