Guess What We’ve always had a format of showing photos of the actual monthly featured item. But deviation never hurt anyone; thus a break with tradition by showing you this detailed patent office delineation.

You could almost say we’re “spoon-feeding” you the answer by conceding the obvious: it’s a SPOON! This super special spoon of specious suspicions was designed for a very unique and specific purpose, as featured in the July 1928 edition of Science and Inventions and unearthed by Nancy Platnick, demonic researcher of kitchen oddities and esteemed member of Kook’s (Kollector of Old Kitchen Stuff.)

What we have is a spoon with a drainage reservoir funnel in the middle and a miniature music box at the end. It’s your job to figure out it’s use without any additional help from us.

Dimensions are superfluous; suffice it to say it’s spoon-size! Possible solutions – is it:
  1. Self-dispensing pill dosage spoon
  2. Infant cod liver oil feeder and lullaby soother
  3. Buckshot shotgun powder shell re-loader
  4. Musical soup spoon cooler and slurp noise suppressor
  5. Veterinarian’s gerbil medicine feeder
  6. Refill honey sweetener cereal spoon
  7. Cream soup skin skimmer
  8. Cooks automatic spice dispensing and blending spoon
  9. Window box seed sowing spoon
  10. Instant iced tea mixing spoon. If you’ll turn to page 81, we’ll break the suspense with the answer, without having to wait a month. Enjoy! Again, thanks to Nancy Platnick, Bay Shore, NY for her relentless research.

    Answer to March's Guess What?

    Guess What? Last month’s rare entry was a simple, but scarce, can opener – circa 1928. The two wheels – cutting and gripping – fit over the rim of the can, while the extended leverage wire bar exerted pressure to keep it in place. The giant key handle completed the operation.

    * available for acquisition



    Number 4 was the correct explanation...but actually, the right answer was number 11 which we never listed – April Fool!

    This deliciously deceptive design was conceived as part of a monthly fantasy feature of Science and Inventions magazine. This was a highlight of the July 1928 issue complete with do-it-yourself instructions for the reader to build and duplicate to perpetrate pranks on the unsuspecting– like me and you!

    This spoon was designed for crushed ice to be placed in the funnel with the melting droplets cooling off too hot soup. The music box was planned to cover up the impolite “slurping” sound that etiquette disapproved of. Did we “gotcha?” Till next time!

    *Thanks Nancy for the tongue-in-cheeker!

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