[Bonetools] Fwd: A strange antler tool

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Gun-Britt,
    Could you send us a picture of this tool and explain how it works? I
have never heard about such things and am now very curious indeed.

Cheers!
Alice

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Gun-Britt <lazy-b at algonet.se> wrote:

>  Hello all,
>
> I am a lurking list-member, just enjoying reading all your inputs. I think
> too toward a metalworking tool, in making threads of metal of different
> thicknesses. It sure looks like a sort of "key" or mechanism, but hey, I
> have done some goldsmithing, and we used a similar tool to pull the metal
> into thinner and thinner threads. Hard work, but tin - as suggested earlier
> - is a very soft metal.
>
> Just a thought,
> Please continue,
> Love and blessings,
> **Gun-Britt Blomdahl
> 5th year, thesis-writing at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
>
>
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Christian Küchelmann <info at knochenarbeit.de>
> *To:* BONETOOLS of bone <bonetools at listserv.niif.hu>
> *Cc:* Michael Olausson <michael.olausson673 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 01, 2011 6:12 PM
> *Subject:* [Bonetools] Fwd: A strange antler tool
>
> Dear all,
>
> following up a request by Michael Olausson that has already been sent to
> the list by Alice last week (see below) I would like to add that the tool is
> now permanently visible for further discussion on the Mystery bone tool page
> of the WBRG website at
> http://www.wbrg.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=20
>
> Best
>
> Christian
>
> --------
> Dear All,
>     I am forwarding a letter and photo from a Swedish colleague. Another
> strange tool. It looks like some part of a mechanism - a locking mechanism?
> However Michael Olausson also says it has some resemblances to a tool used
> by the Sami for producing tin thread! If you reply to Michael could you also
> please CC the list so we can all read about it?
>
> Alice
>
>   ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Olausson <michael.olausson673 at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:55 AM
> Subject: A strange antler tool
> To: h13017cho at helka.iif.hu
>
>
> Dear Dr. Alice Choyke,
> Dr Kordula Gostencnik suggested that I should contact You in this
> matter. I will send You my letter to her as well with the picture of
> the item. Dr Gostencnik dod�t regard the toll as one conected to
> textil handcraft. She suggestes that it might be a toy, I do not agree
> with her, if it should look like a "bear" then it should be made as a
> bear! Since there are three differnt kinds of "measurements" of the
> teeth, I radaer would thinkt that it has been used to make threads ore
> to measure threads. We have a little discussion in Stockholm if it
> could be used for metal, silver and gold.
> The tool wich has many similarties with a Roman antler key, was found
> in mixed layers on a house terrace on the hilltop site,
> "H�hensiedlung" Runsa frpm the 5th & 6th centuries.
>
>
> It would be nice if You could have some ideas, references.
>
> Yours Sincerely
> Michael Olausson
> ass.prof
>
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