Mystery Thingy

[NazNomad]

It's about 23'' x 14''

The swivelly strips are plastic. When stowed, they sit flush with the wood surface.

There's a copper strip around the top that sits proud of the front.

Grabbed it on a tip-run because I was intrigued by it.

 

[Bm101]

Shove ha'penny board?

 

[NazNomad]

OH said that and I dismissed it, but looking at pics, you might both be right.

What's the purpose of the movable strips then?

 

[NazNomad]

Ahaa ... ''All lines on the board are indented slightly - perhaps a sixteenth of an inch. Expensive wooden boards sometimes have much deeper slots with brass rails in them that protrude from one side and are hinged on the other. To judge whether a Ha'penny is touching a line or not, the rail is briefly lifted out of the slot and if the coin moves, it was not within the bed and does not score.''

 

[Bm101]

Just remember seeing a similar one somewhere mate marked up with scores and so on most likely in a pub somewhere, was the top strip that reminded me. That's a nice find from the tip. Restore it and get drunk and play it. 8)

 

[NazNomad]

I'm proceeding to do just that... both the drinking and the shoving. :-D

On closer inspection, it's a brass strip around the top and the plastic strips are bakelite.

I reckon it'll clean up nice.

 

[Bm101]

Top shout. Updates please.

 

[rafezetter]

What a lovely thing, never seen one before - there's allsorts you could do with that - house chores need doing? shove a coin see what you get - lucky dip takeaway night..

That's got me thinking.. I know a family with 2 young kids that might actually like adding that "lets make it a game" factor to things.

 

[sunnybob]

Used to play that a lot as a kid, we had a very nice board. That is untill my brother and I turned it over and used it as a dart board.
Hay, its woodworm, all right?

 

[NazNomad]

Stripped all the parts off it. Lightly hit the board with 240 grit to remove a repugnant layer of nicotine. Left the honest marks that are obviously a result of some old-timer venting their pre-decimal anger at losing a half pint or Porter... again.

Re-coloured the black parts with a jumbo marker (no elephants were harmed in the restoration of this item).

0000 steel wool on the brass strip.

Slathered all the wood parts with BLO and reassembled it.

it's gorgeous, shame 4 of the bakelite strips were busted.

Upgraded it to 'Shove 2p' whilst waiting for Ha'pennies to be bought.

 

[sunnybob]

Naz, theres a perfect excuse to make some nice brass replacements. much better than that nasty plastic stuff.

 

[NazNomad]

I thought about that... possibly to be continued.

 

[Claymore]

Nice find Naz.......at first it thought it was a tool used by confectioners many years ago for slicing fondant etc into strips before leaving to set.....the strips enabled them to make lots of pieces exactly the same size (nowadays they use wire or even fine water jets to cut wafer biscuits) with it having the bakelite strips it would also fit in as they like to keep metal away from edible stuff.
I think your probably right though with the shove doodah considering it had nicotine it probably lived in a pub for many years before you rescued it!
Cheers
Brian

 

[NazNomad]

Never smoked in my life, but made up for it today.

Reminds himself to put his bloody mask on

 

[Jonzjob]

Shove 1/2d board and the lifting strips are to show if the 1/2d is clear of them or touching. If they touch then they are not in that strip.

So you aren't cheating here's a likkle read for you https://www.mastersofgames.com/rules/shove-hapenny-rules.htm :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

What a terrific find and a nice result =D> =D>