"Holy Cow, That's It!": 27 "Bizarre" Items That Had Everyone Totally Stumped Until The Internet Solved The Mystery

"It's a decorative 'lantern.' This peculiar 1 looks similar a precocious 1950s-to-mid-1960s design. This benignant of wood-dowel/domed/vaguely Moroccan-influenced decorative hanging lantern was beauteous fashionable backmost then. Some radical enactment existent tiny candles successful them, but astir radical conscionable hung them for decorations (because putting candles wrong a wooden-topped candle holder is beauteous dumb, naturally).

Here's a nexus to an eBay listing for one that looks precisely similar yours, but the listed point has a hanging ring. Yours mightiness beryllium missing the ring, oregon possibly you ne'er had one.

There are similar-looking designs from the 19th period and earlier that had a solid globe oregon shadiness inside, which you could assistance and enactment a tiny candle under. Like the solid chimney from an old-fashioned kerosene lamp, but smaller and inserted into the 'cage' of the lantern during the manufacturing process. Again, it would lone beryllium utilized with small tiny candles, though, and thing that could propulsion important vigor up against the dome of the lantern body. Here's an eBay listing for specified a woody lantern."

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