<div>But to return to poor Michael's original object - I really wonder whether this could be a draw plate for metal threads given how soft antler is. It is really a puzzle.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I try to attach the drawing I made, and I hope you understand how I think-this would mean (I guess) that perhaps a "top" to this tool is missing, or if not, that they - like Etan suggested - used it for thongs or something softer and just used their finger to "top" it...i.e. to stop the what-ever-they-were-using to slip out of the groove. Sorry about the size, and hope it works,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Subject:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Re: [Bonetools] Fwd: A strange antler tool</span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In the Levant, at least, such metal threads were traditionally made by goldsmiths with a different tool - a piece of metal with many small holes of various diameters. This piece was mounted on a wooden base equipped with a small pulley on each side. The thread was tied to one pulley, passed through the largest hole and pulled through it using the other pulley. Then it was transferred to the next, smaller hole etc. etc.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I was thinking about a tool used to straighten or strech strings and thongs, made for instance of leather, by holding one of them in one of the tool's slices, locking it in place with the finger and then pulling the tool along the string.</span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right; DIRECTION: rtl; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" dir="rtl" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">From</span></b><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="HE"><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span>:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="HE"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu" target="_blank">bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu</a></span><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="HE"><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span> [</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">mailto:<a href="mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu" target="_blank">bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu</a></span><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="HE"><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span>] </span><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">On Behalf Of</span></b><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span> </span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">Alice</span><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">Choyke</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="HE"><br>
</span><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">Sent</span></b><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="HE"><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span>:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="HE"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">Tuesday, March 01, 2011 11:07 PM</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="HE"><br>
</span><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">To</span></b><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="HE"><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span>:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="HE"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">Mailing</span><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">list for archaeologists of the research group for the study ofobject and waste</span><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">of bone,antler. ivory and horn</span><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="HE"><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span>.<br>
</span><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">Subject</span></b><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="HE"><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span>:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="HE"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">Re: [Bonetools] Fwd: A</span><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span dir="rtl"></span><span dir="rtl"></span> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" dir="ltr">strange antler tool</span><span lang="HE"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span> 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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> 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?</p>
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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<span>�</span>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,</p>
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