<div>Dear Gun-Britt,</div>
<div> 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.</div>
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<div>Cheers!</div>
<div>Alice<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Gun-Britt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lazy-b@algonet.se">lazy-b@algonet.se</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><b>From:</b> <a title="info@knochenarbeit.de" href="mailto:info@knochenarbeit.de" target="_blank">Christian Küchelmann</a> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="bonetools@listserv.niif.hu" href="mailto:bonetools@listserv.niif.hu" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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>
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<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" target="_blank">http://www.wbrg.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=20</a></div>
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<div>Best</div>
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<div>Christian</div>
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<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>
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<div>Alice<br><br></div></div></div>
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Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:55 AM<br>Subject: A strange antler tool<br>To: <a href="mailto:h13017cho@helka.iif.hu" target="_blank">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></div></div>"H�hensiedlung" Runsa frpm the 5th & 6th centuries.
<div class="im"><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></div>
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