50 Times People Asked The Internet For Help Identifying Mystery Objects And They Delivered (New Pics)

Mounting block / horse block / carriage stone.

Purple martin 'gourd' nesting boxes.

ACanadianGuy1967:

You’ll notice that they are often built so they can be lowered (note to cable or rope in that photo for example, attached near the bottom of the pole.) When the birds leave in the autumn to migrate south, it’s good to lower the nesting boxes and clean them out so they’re ready for next spring. It reduces illness when they have clean nesting boxes.

Two of my neighbors have purple Martin nesting boxes up on poles but theirs look like little apartment buildings. But there are gourd-style ones in our area, too.

It's a vestigial device deliberately installed into a great number of imported shirts so that they classify as a specific article of clothing which avoids a tariff.

Link: "tariff engineering." It also explains why Converse shoes come with fuzzy, "non-athletic" soles which abrade down to the grippier outsole with use.
Key quote: "Columbia Sportswear adds pockets below the waistline of certain women’s shirts so that they are not technically classified as blouses, which brings the duty rate down from 26.9% to 16%, as Marketplace reported in 2019. The company refers to it as a 'ChapStick pocket.'"

It's an Australian house that isn't that old. And according to OP, previous owner was Asian. It's the place where you put the fridge. The plug at the back makes sense. Asians like to hose their kitchen and bathrooms down to make it easier to clean. Water won't go under the fridge this way. I used to live in Singapore.

Not art, not copper sheeting. Just some dude's attempt to shield himself from 5G. I'm not kidding.

Source: I'm in the neighborhood, people are complaining.

Edit: The "faraday cage" answers from other users are correct. It's not rational, the guy who bought the building is unwell.

Edit 2: It's metal. Yes, it's loud.

It's a butter bell. You put butter into the cup of the lid, put cool water in the outside cup and it keeps the butter cooler on the counter.

Rope making. twisting three strands into a rope.

Removes fine dust and viruses from shoes installed at Seoul Forest subway station.

Definitely an old speaking tube. If your house is two stories tall it would have most likely came out by the front door so if a visitor came by and no one answered a knock they could pull the flap up and blow into it and it would whistle to hopefully get some ones attention. Then drop the flaps and be able to talk to each other with out having to go down stair.

My parents old house (it was built in 1906) had one. They had silicone filled the hole by the front door. But it was repaired and made to work great.

Perfume bottles..And fancy ones at that..Nice find..

Water reservoir for tapwater or artificial snow.

Source: I am Austrian.

It’s a lamp and it took me far too long to realise this is sitting on a desk and isn’t actually 7ft tall.

That's usually the result of a drive-by with a BB gun.

Tar balls! When I was a kid, my mom used to cover me in baby oil before we swam in the Gulf of Mexico so the tar didn’t stick to me.

Flat track motorcycle racing shoe. Goes over your boot and lets your inside foot drag around the sweeping corners and not catch or wear out your boot, probably from the 1960s.

Could these be smart bed legs, for trapping/detecting bed bugs that climb up them.

Lilithrc390:

They are 100% this bug detection things, my mum sent me some closer photos.

Vintage school desk frame.

Looks like air layering to propagate the trees (make new trees from healthy branches faster than starting from seed).

Bird rings for pigeons.

Modeling accessory. People use them for dollhouses, stop action films, dioramas, etc. Those look 1-to-12 scale, so they'd look size appropriate with a 6 inch tall action figure.

Old CD rack.

I’m male but I did leather work for a long time. It’s just a card case so you can leave your purse and carry just your id and a few credit cards or bills with you. It’s not a modern use item. More of a throwback.

Most likely it’s a part of a souvenir keychain like this, but from Moscow. The eagle is Russian coat of arms (there’s St George on the shield in the middle), the second picture is St Basil’s Cathedral, and the third one looks like Spasskaya tower of Kremlin.

potatojunior:

Probably it is a veeeery old version of this.

It's a termite bait station. A pest control company puts cellulose material in it to lure termites if they are nearby and then periodically monitors it for activity to see if treatment is necessary.

Cannonball.

Its an old pump from a well. We have one with an actual old stand alone pumphouse in my town where i live. The one in your picture is built in to the building. The "pendulum" thing is for moving the pump mechanism to bring up the water from the well.

If there is no water coming out its either because the well is dried up or the mechanic is broken/disabled.

I have one of those. It came with my tiller to pick dirt and roots from the blades.

Mac tools telescopic pocket magnet.

Flavored betel nut shavings. Used as mouth freshener/ aperitif in SE Asia.

Clip to chain the dog outside.

It’s a dumpling maker. First letter looks like a Russian Ц. These were popular in the Soviet Union

It's a cranial cap.
You put it under the head to absorb leaking brain goo.

This looks like the rubber part from a cheap stamp. Like one at the end of a marker.

It is called a glove box damper and it attaches to the glovebox door so that when you open the glovebox, it gently opens instead of just falling open. They might have taken it apart to change the cabin filter and didn’t reinstall it properly.

Matchstick holder in case u need to manually light the grill.

The most likely answer is "hair dryer holder repurposed to cane holder".

It’s a crucifixion bottle, or god-in-a-bottle. Cool! And a bit creepy!

It's a headrest. If you google "Chinese porcelain headrest" you'll see a lot of similar ones.

Its a wafer iron. Works the same way as a waffle iron, just makes wafers (Krumkake) instead.

Pizzelle irons generally have a waffle pattern on 1 side and another pattern on the other side. Krumkake irons generally have the same pattern on both sides.

The waste that is left over after flushing out an injection molding machine.

Wine bottle holder or really any bottle holder.

It’s a key switch (more than likely) for an alarm system that no longer exists; key switches were fairly common in the days before keypads to arm/disarm. The back of the door where that hole is used to have wires going to it, and if you were to put a wrench on the two flats it would unscrew if you wanted to remove it and have the hole filled. Right now it’s not connected to anything, so nothing to worry about. Hope that helps!

Looks like pieces of Velcro.

Mooring platforms for the fleet. Lots of great fishing and diving near them. Spend 4 1/2 years in the island of misfit toys.

This is actually a pickleball holder!!! Pickleballs have holes in them and you're supposed to slide it in and it'll stay put.

This is art: "Scarabäus" by Adrian Basilius.

This is a token for a raffle. You put it in slot machine to win coupons.

Ear cleaner.

It looks very similar to the nosecone and structure on the ramjets for a Russian KH-31 missile, like in this photo.