Pliers?

[jrwill56]

a friend found these in a field,anyone know what they were used for?
About 8" long,the tips are 1" flat and round.

 

[dcinffxva]

Bullet mold for a blank pistol

 

[dozer dan]

for swaging bullets?

 

[fortbball9]

Is the end of the item solid or cupped out.I don't see a hole where the lead would be poured in.
I would lean more to blacksmith tongs of some sort.
I don't think it is a bullet mold.

fortbball9

 

[Likely Guy]

The business end looks like typical farriers tongs, but they were usually long handled and didn't have the scissor handles.

Photo here: http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgu...v=/images?q=farrier+tongs&hl=en&safe=off&um=1

Too big to repost. 2nd pic from bottom.

 

[savant365]

Not exactly like the ones I have seen but they look like the pliers used to put rings in a hogs nose to keep them from rooting. You said he found them in a field so maybe...All the ones I have seen are more modern, I don't know what a vintage pair looks like. Google let me down when I searched for a pic.

HH Charlie

 

[Ramitt]

would you use something like that for bale seals?

 

[jrwill56]

Is the end of the item solid or cupped out.I don't see a hole where the lead would be poured in.
I would lean more to blacksmith tongs of some sort.
I don't think it is a bullet mold.

fortbball9

ends not cupped ,compleatly flat and smooth.

 

[rmptr]

Bullet mold for a blank pistol

a bullet for a blank pistol?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Is the end of the item solid or cupped out.I don't see a hole where the lead would be poured in.
I would lean more to blacksmith tongs of some sort.
I don't think it is a bullet mold.

fortbball9

I think he was joking about bullet mold.



Could it be a candle snuffer?

 

[Buck Bagaw]

Nice find, with some folk history attached. What you have is a hair straightener used by Black Folks many years ago. It was heated and drawn along the strands to take the waves out. Back in the Fifties a gentleman named Turner Kirkland, who was the founder of Dixie Gun Works, bought up a lot of these and had them machined into bullet moulds.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Nice find, with some folk history attached. What you have is a hair straightener used by Black Folks many years ago. It was heated and drawn along the strands to take the waves out. Back in the Fifties a gentleman named Turner Kirkland, who was the founder of Dixie Gun Works, bought up a lot of these and had them machined into bullet moulds.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090215161317AAW9Z1l

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=260363116334

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Interesting Buck. Could mine be the same?

 

[jsandin]

Nice find, with some folk history attached. What you have is a hair straightener used by Black Folks many years ago. It was heated and drawn along the strands to take the waves out. Back in the Fifties a gentleman named Turner Kirkland, who was the founder of Dixie Gun Works, bought up a lot of these and had them machined into bullet moulds.

Correct. I still have one of those Dixie molds I bought in 1976, for my .67 caliber flintlock pistol. The handles are painted red.

 

[Buck Bagaw]

Bigcypress, Yours was made as a bullet mould as evidenced by the built in sprue cutter.

 

[Likely Guy]

Bigcypress, Yours was made as a bullet mould as evidenced by the built in sprue cutter.

Agreed, now back to the 'What is it?', at hand.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Great ID.

I wish I knew what the square end was for, but I should try posting it again.

 

[trikikiwi]

Great ID Buck I suspect you are going to become a familiar presence on the What is it? Forum

BigCy, does it make sense if the block on the handle of your mold was for holding the mold in a vice?
Does it show any cross-hatch marks, as though from a vice?

Mike

 

[jrwill56]

Great ID Buck I suspect you are going to become a familiar presence on the What is it? Forum

BigCy, does it make sense if the block on the handle of your mold was for holding the mold in a vice?
Does it show any cross-hatch marks, as though from a vice?

Mike

 

[jrwill56]

Nice find, with some folk history attached. What you have is a hair straightener used by Black Folks many years ago. It was heated and drawn along the strands to take the waves out. Back in the Fifties a gentleman named Turner Kirkland, who was the founder of Dixie Gun Works, bought up a lot of these and had them machined into bullet moulds.