{"id":1786,"date":"2024-07-14T22:54:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T22:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2024-07-14T22:54:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T22:54:05","slug":"do-you-remember-these-many-finds-mysterious-tools-in-his-grandparents-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"Do you remember these? Many finds mysterious tools in his grandparents\u2019 home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A young man was recently going through his grandparents\u2019 old things after they passed and showed an interesting find to a friend of his.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyspire.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2023-05-22-at-6.17.30-PM-768x487-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5988\" style=\"width:301px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The two could not tell what these metal objects could possibly be until the found some information online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The metal sticks are actually nutcrackers! Likely from the 1940\u2019s or 1950\u2019s, this type of nutcracker would be used to dig the actual nut out of a shell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">They help to get to the edible portion of any nut, but are especially common to help one properly eat a chestnut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyspire.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2023-05-22-at-6.18.17-PM-768x487-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5989\" style=\"width:344px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Nutcrackers like this were often in similar sets of seafood tools that included implements for cracking the shells of shellfish in addition to picks for pulling out the meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyspire.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2023-05-22-at-6.19.09-PM-768x487-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5990\" style=\"width:348px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Etsy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The nutcrackers could also often been found with a matching wooden bowl designed to look like a chestnut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Many of us and our grandparents had similar tools at home, along with the fond memories that go with them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young man was recently going through his grandparents\u2019 old things after they passed and showed an interesting find to a friend of his. The two could not tell what&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":707,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}