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  • Cute_'n'_Quirky
    Cute_'n'_Quirky Posts: 2,082 Forumite
    I still think that they belong to a lamp either for a candle or a gas-lamp fitting.

    They look remarkably like that.
  • apprentice_tycoon
    apprentice_tycoon Posts: 3,300 Forumite
    if you google cucumber straightener (images) you'll see that Campdens items look like modern variations on the Victorian ones
  • Lakelady_2
    Lakelady_2 Posts: 286 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Have you got an auction house nearby? I`d try selling them there, fittings for oil lamps usually do OK. If that is what they are???
  • Avoriaz
    Avoriaz Posts: 39,110 Forumite
    Campden wrote: »
    …They are far too big for a man.

    You speak for yourself mate. :p
  • soolin
    soolin Posts: 74,955 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Avoriaz wrote: »
    You speak for yourself mate. :p


    I was waiting for that one...

    ;)
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  • FloFlo
    FloFlo Posts: 32,720 Forumite
    CHR15 wrote: »
    It's one of those suction pumps for blokes without much endowment!

    It's just missing the pumper bit!

    That is definitely the description that would make the most money on ebay, especially if you added 'human pumper provided'.
  • Campden
    Campden Posts: 222 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    I am a respectable old lady which means I am old enough to know that lamp chimneys are made of very thin glass.

    Thank you all for your suggestions, none of which seem exactly right.

    Thanks also to the other 800 viewers of the thread, who would have contributed if they had known the answer.

    Quite a mystery still.
  • FloFlo
    FloFlo Posts: 32,720 Forumite
    I apologise if my contribution came across as coarse or vulgar, I have slapped my own wrist.
  • CHR15
    CHR15 Posts: 5,193 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Me too........ how much do you want for it??

    Anyone know where to get a pumper from??
  • FloFlo
    FloFlo Posts: 32,720 Forumite
    CHR15 wrote: »
    Me too........ how much do you want for it??

    Anyone know where to get a pumper from??

    How much can you afford?;)
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