{"id":3104,"date":"2024-07-19T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2024-07-19T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:26:12","slug":"do-you-remember-these-many-finds-mysterious-tools-in-his-grandparents-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=3104","title":{"rendered":"Do you remember these? Many finds mysterious tools in his grandparents\u2019 home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"957\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_4282.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_4282.jpeg 957w, https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_4282-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_4282-768x433.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><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\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/truth-here.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/450762360_780299084259047_2288397727510517287_n-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31855\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The two could not tell what these metal objects could possibly be until the found some information online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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>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\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/05\/19093110\/Screenshot-2023-05-22-at-6.18.17-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127931\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/05\/19093111\/Screenshot-2023-05-22-at-6.19.09-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127932\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/ie\/listing\/1191704381\/crack-your-nuts-here-wood-nut-bowl-nut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Etsy<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The nutcrackers could also often been found with a matching wooden bowl designed to look like a chestnut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of us and our grandparents had similar tools at home, along with the fond memories that go with them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Did you ever have nutcrackers or picks like this? Tell us about your favorite memories of them in the comments!<\/strong><\/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&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}