We are stumped!

  • @[email protected]
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    69 hours ago

    The snaps on this are giving me major flashbacks, though I can’t put my finger on anything specific. My mum was a seamstress and I’m sure I remember finding and playing with something exactly like this in her room as a kid back in the 80s. Will reply here if it comes back to me :) the fact it’s adjustable to fixed intervals via the snaps seems too purposeful and practical, though - especially with the metal presumably giving rigidity to whatever it’s used for.

  • Majorllama
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    610 hours ago

    Something to hold rilled up mats or pads or something? Adjustable to thicker materials or different sizes rolls maybe?

      • Majorllama
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        210 hours ago

        Just makes logical sense looking at it. I can see like rolled up gymnastics mats or something.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          29 hours ago

          Yeah, its quite old. We found it in a garment bag in an attic. I’m thinking it’s for a mattress, except for the three separate sizes.

          It reminds me of metal strapping bands, but no sharp bends from a pallet and the strapping bands have permanent clamps.

          • @mojofrododojo
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            23 hours ago

            We found it in a garment bag in an attic.

            could they be to roll up and secure (cinch) the garment bag with differing sized loops, or really large with all connected in series?

  • @CelloMike
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    510 hours ago

    Could it be something to do with clothing, thinking like a hoop skirt? Or part of a tent structure maybe

    • @[email protected]OP
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      210 hours ago

      I was thinking about skirt hoops, but everything I see like it is painted and doesn’t show snaps.

      It could be it, since it is probably 40+ years old.

  • @[email protected]
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    210 hours ago

    Could be part of a prosthetic maybe? Google picture search has a lot of suggestions but no clear answers.

    • @[email protected]
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      39 hours ago

      Don’t think it could be anything for prosthetics, that type of steel would be too liable to cause a patient a wound, we tend to use things like leather or dacron for strapping.

      Looks similar to strapping I seen for keeping rolls of sheet metal together.