What is this tool? It's suppsed to be used in church maintenance

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It’s a antique carpet stretcher.

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It looks like it may have been used during the Spanish Inquisition…

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If your dentist has one of these in his office….beware….

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Circumcision tool lol

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Well Jim … I think your’s is the only realistic response or it that just a guess?

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Could we have larger photos?

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My guess is a wick trimmer for candles that are in high places

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It’s used to extend a collection basket to reach the parishoner.

some larger pics and of different angles would be good.

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I made the pictures bigger but all I can come up with is that it is like a long set of tongs that when opened it will eject what it has picked up. The little “skid” on the bottom of the working end would indicate that whatever this picks up or places and ejects is at that spacific hight. The way it is designed indicates that it is used horazontlally not vertically or more or less like reaching down towards the floor in front of you. Could it be used for some lawn fete game? Placing a card on some sort of ledge?
MIKE

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Wick trimmer for those highly placed candles ?

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What church? I won’t go there.
Bill

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I’ve sent several workers to the hardware store over the years to get building stretchers. Maybe somebody finally found one. ;-|

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I’m voting with MrRon about extending the collection plate. I vaguely remember seeing something similar when I was a child going to my grandparents church.

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