Thanks Cheryl. Greene gave me the idea to look for sites like that when she talked about the phone app thingy. And man oh man, did I ever find sites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This reddit one seemed like the best fit for this object. I warn you though --- you can get lost looking & reading what things are. You could spend an entire night just looking at things on there.

greene said:Not the same as a Google Image search; this app is different. Google Image search relies on the use of words to describe an object.

The app works when you click a photo of the object using the smart phone; uses visual search and image recognition kind of like the digital fingerprint and face recognition machines the authorities use.

You can drag a photo into the google search and it will search for related images; you don't have to enter a description.

Dutchlady1 said:
You can drag a photo into the google search and it will search for related images; you don't have to enter a description.

Wow, cool Hetty. I never knew about this.
https://support.google.com/web...

So what is it then? It seems we have all the tools but still no answer.

Give it time @Ken! We JUST found the tools!!

, I'm so sorry! I got caught up looking at stuff


I'll let y'all know as soon as I know but I get the feeling, y'all will know before me

I found the app for Chrome users and added it to my laptop.
https://chrome.google.com/webs...

This is a fun mystery item and I hope we never ID it. It can just keep going and going....

I'd like to ask again about the coating. Rubber? or Plastic?
Are there any visible scratch marks on the inside? Scratches might give us a clue as to its intended purpose.

flaflwrgrl said:

Wow, cool Hetty. I never knew about this.
https://support.google.com/web...

I never knew about it, either!! Thanks, Hetty

@flaflwrgirl, I signed up but don't understand how to go further. It wants me to select interests, that was the first step.

If I give you permission to post my pic........


Sometimes I feel like an old fart that will never catch up. I can't even get back on it now

greene said:
This is a fun mystery item and I hope we never ID it. It can just keep going and going....

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!

Where is @RickCorey when we need him?? Rick, you have all kinds of obscure knowledge, help us out here! (where is the "begging" emoticon?)

Yep, we need Rick!

I might be overthinking this but here goes.
Stuck on the idea of the witch's cauldron the rubber or plastic coating rules out anything with fire.
Okay, no fire. How about the fake flame electric fan cauldrons that hang?
And here is the overthinking part...
Back in the day before we had the electric fan fake flame thing happening, we just used dry ice to may the creepy fog happen.
But having dry ice in a metal container could be dangerous for curious fingers, so the solution is to add a coating or rubber/plastic to insulate the metal keeping little fingers safe.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it because if I don't I'll be at this all night.

Hmmmm -- I don't seem to be able to figure out how to get into the search thing, either... now we have a whole new mystery on our hands

Weedwhacker, are you using Chrome?

greene said:Weedwhacker, are you using Chrome?

Yes -- just came back here to say I figured it out...

when you go to Google in Chrome, near the top on the right side it says "images" ; click on that and you can enter a photo.

and when I did that I found that we still don't know anything

Jolana said:@flaflwrgirl, I signed up but don't understand how to go further. It wants me to select interests, that was the first step.

If I give you permission to post my pic........


Sometimes I feel like an old fart that will never catch up. I can't even get back on it now

Did you sign up to the reddit thing or the google thing? I'm crappy at that stuff too.

I already sent an email to Rick to ask him to take a look so I guess he's busy right now & will get to it when he can. Then too, he's west coast so he will only be getting home from work a little bit ago or in a little bit I guess.

at the reddit, my windows eight always has issues with google anything off and on
Thanks for all of you help

I'm bogged down researching A/C units right now for my hubs who is breathing down my neck about them so I can't go through the whole registration process tonight. Can someone try posting Jolana's photo on reddit?

Tomorrow, I can get on my son's computer and try to check out the sites. Boy, when we figure this out, I can't wait to look for something else,

Jolana said:Tomorrow, I can get on my son's computer and try to check out the sites. Boy, when we figure this out, I can't wait to look for something else,

I was thinking more along the lines of making some strange things that I could leave here and there for people to find and wonder what they are...

OOOOh, someone has an ornery side, Love it