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    WANTED: GADGETS, GIZMOS & CONTRAPTIONS

    May 08, 2020 4 minutes

    The genius of pioneer inventors can confound us. Countless contraptions that revolutionized farming in the 19th and early 20th centuries have become contemporary curiosities, or even mysteries. Here are six sent in by readers. Do you know what they are? Answers to the June 2020 items will appear in the August 2020 issue.

    Answers for new items in this issue must be received by June 5, 2020.

    JUNE MYSTERY TOOLS

    A. No information provided.

    Tool measures about 8 inches long. Moon-shaped ends are thin but not knife-sharp. It looks like there was a flat steel spring on the inside of one handle to push it open. At the end of the

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