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Posted 9 years ago
UncleRon
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All four of these little punches are used for the same thing. I'll tell you what they are but I'd love to here some guesses first. There's a clue in my title.
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something to do with decoys?
Tagging wild foul .
Duckbill punch
AzTom - I saw an ad in a 1920s magazine for one of these and it didn't mention that specific use but you are SO close. :-)
Instead of quacking, they would whistle ?
LOL, You don't use it on the duck bill, it's named for the shape.
Ok, now we have a second clue. All we need to do is go through all of the 1920's magazines.
Appears to be made for punching holes . In paper, such as bills ?
They don't whistle. They do punch holes - not in paper. AzTom is still SO close. I'll give it 'til tomorrow eve.
Clipping wings so they can't fly . Then, if you don't like the quacking & prefer that they whistle, you know what to do. Of course, since they can't fly, they don't need to be tagged ! Have I covered all bases ?
Have you heard the saying "get your ducks in a row"
These tools punched holes in the ducks so you could tie them together like this.
http://woodworking.formeremortals.net/2014/12/make-duck-pull-toy-classic-fun/
Tom , Sa wha ? !!!
You guys are sick! OK-
These are web punches for duck's feet. In the bad old days when your ducks ran loose they might wander over to your neighbor's pond or vice-versa. You would use one of these punches to make a hole(s) in the webbing of your ducks' feet to identify them from the visitors. This is similar to notching a cow's ear or branding cattle. These four are the only styles I have ever seen but I'll bet there are more. The silver colored one is stamped "G. F. Pilling & Son / Phila." on the top; the others are unmarked. As I said earlier, I would never have known this if I hadn't seen a little ad in the back pages of an old farming magazine. I wish I had saved that mag for reference.
People go around punching holes in duck's feet, and we're "sick" !! LOL !!