Wondering about Flea Market Finds.

My wife spent a few hours at one guy's tables.  I walked all over the flea market and came back and she was still there.  So, I went way down to the other end, bought a bottle of Mexican Coca-Cola and went and sat down at a friends table and chatted with him for awhile.  It got to be time for me to want to go home so I went back to that first isle and, yep, she was still there.  I told her I was going home and if she wanted a ride she better come too.  She said OK, and she had her bag full.  She got all kinds of fabric, brand new sheets, and a lots of other things.  I am going to just show you some of them.

I am going to show you a bunch of pictures of this one item.  Each picture will be from a different angle or distance.

OK now, how many of you know just what this piece of equipment is?  How big is it, you may ask.  Well, I can hold it in one hand.  The crank handle gives you a clue of the size.  I am not going to tell you what it is used for until tomorrow.  I want to see what you all come up with.  Join in and have some fun guessing.

She also got a neat belt buckle shaped like two hands.  One goes on each end of a belt and the clasp together.  Never saw a buckle like that.  Then she got some camel bells.  I guess all we need now is a camel. . .

Here is a close up of the tag that tell you all about them:

Guess what?  I even got a couple of books.  One was on diesel engines used on railroads, etc.  It is a mess and I am trying to clean it up.  May have to read it outside.  It smells too bad to bring it in the house.

I also bought this other book:

At my age, I probably could write a book like this but I had to get something from one of my buddies who sets up every week.  Maybe I should read it anyway, I may learn something.  Who knows.

By the way, that first item I showed you?  My wife looked it up on the Internet and they are selling for ten to twenty times more than she paid for hers.  I guess she did good.  Let's hope she gets a lot of use out of it.  It is a simply beautiful day here.  Hope you all have a great day, you hear?

UPDATE:  OK, some of you commenters got it right.  It was designed to cut strips of cloth that then could be made into things like rugs.