What Is It Wednesday? Week 10

KillRamsey

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A fresh shot, full of obscuring bokeh, just for you all. Have at it.

How this is played?

Each member gets one guess. The answer will be revealed on the following Tuesday. The first correct guess has the honour of submitting the image for the next challenge. Sometimes there will be more than one thing in the photo or more than one way to accurately describe what the photo represents. The original poster will be the final judge of who is "most correct".

Enjoy!

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by gordopuggy, on Flickr
 
I'm not what the word for it is. It's not wainscotting..... or a chair rail, but the same kinda thing. Except higher up on the wall. It's used for displaying decorative plates or knick knacks. My guess is that these would be common from a certain era home around Boston.
 
My guess is that these would be common from a certain era home around Boston.
I was thinking of "getting an assist" on this one by sending the photo to my son. He and his wife lived in East Cambridge for 4 years in a place built in 1866 (the earliest record I could find for the building).
 
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Ok, this one may have been TOO obscure, so let me hint a little...

1. It's not from Boston. It's from Atlanta GA, though you could've found these in office buildings across America when it was made.
2. It's from the 1960s, approximately, and I will say that this type of thing is still widely in use, but NO ONE makes them like this anymore.
3. You're looking at it from one end... it doesn't look anything like this if rotated 90 degrees. And in fact, if rotated even a degree or two in that photo, it would've been pretty obvious that it's not as small / thin as it looks here.
 
Both the vertical and the horizontal piece are part of it. It is photographed here balanced on a green bike rack, not because it has anything to do with bikes, but because that's where I could find a place to photograph it in peace.
 
Ok, it's wednesday, and nobody's really gotten close -- no one's figured out what shape it really is, which means I really made this one too obscure. I motion that I reveal and post a new, easier one?
 
What It Was... was a bronze name plaque from my grandfather's desk. He was a bank auditor for 35 years in Atlanta, and back then, they sand cast your name plaque in bronze. Which is nuts, compared to today, I think. Photographed on end like that, it was apparently way too hard to tell that it was, in fact, a long, thin object. I had to line it up so carefully to not show how long it was.

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What it was
by gordopuggy, on Flickr

New object forthcoming... easier this time!
 
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