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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hello all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Just a thought,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Please continue,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Love and blessings,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>**Gun-Britt Blomdahl</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>5th year, thesis-writing at Linnaeus University,
Kalmar, Sweden</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=info@knochenarbeit.de href="mailto:info@knochenarbeit.de">Christian
Küchelmann</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=bonetools@listserv.niif.hu
href="mailto:bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">BONETOOLS of bone</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
title=michael.olausson673@gmail.com
href="mailto:michael.olausson673@gmail.com">Michael Olausson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 01, 2011 6:12
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bonetools] Fwd: A strange
antler tool</DIV>
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<DIV>Dear all,</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>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 </DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.wbrg.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=20">http://www.wbrg.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=20</A></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Best</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Christian</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>--------</DIV>
<DIV>Dear All,</DIV>
<DIV> 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?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Alice<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>---------- Forwarded message ----------<BR>From: <B
class=gmail_sendername>Michael Olausson</B> <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:michael.olausson673@gmail.com">michael.olausson673@gmail.com</A>></SPAN><BR>Date:
Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:55 AM<BR>Subject: A strange antler tool<BR>To: <A
href="mailto:h13017cho@helka.iif.hu">h13017cho@helka.iif.hu</A><BR><BR><BR>Dear
Dr. Alice Choyke,<BR>Dr Kordula Gostencnik suggested that I should contact You
in this<BR>matter. I will send You my letter to her as well with the picture
of<BR>the item. Dr Gostencnik dod�t regard the toll as one conected
to<BR>textil handcraft. She suggestes that it might be a toy, I do not
agree<BR>with her, if it should look like a "bear" then it should be made as
a<BR>bear! Since there are three differnt kinds of "measurements" of
the<BR>teeth, I radaer would thinkt that it has been used to make threads
ore<BR>to measure threads. We have a little discussion in Stockholm if
it<BR>could be used for metal, silver and gold.<BR>The tool wich has many
similarties with a Roman antler key, was found<BR>in mixed layers on a house
terrace on the hilltop site,<BR>"H�hensiedlung" Runsa frpm the 5th & 6th
centuries.<BR><BR>It would be nice if You could have some ideas,
references.<BR><BR>Yours Sincerely<BR><FONT color=#888888>Michael
Olausson<BR>ass.prof<BR></FONT></DIV><BR><IMG
src="cid:4AFD2B5B174E48E08B3D2EEE5747C2A9@Kontoret">
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