It is wrong to believe that individuals in the past were less creative than you and me. Their imagination was rich enough to produce a wide range of items, some of which were useful and others, well, very weird.

There was, for example, a reusable body washing pill that was also inherited. There were vehicle vases, an applause volume measuring gadget, a pocket sundial, a toaster fork, and other oddities.

Here you will find a small variety of vintage accessories, the purpose of which many modern people are unsure about at first appearance.

11. A car vase

10. A reusable cocktail pick

9. A device for dialing a rotary phone

8. A mechanical circular calculator

7. A hooked ice pick

6. Victorian ice cream spoon

5. A toy washing machine

4. A pocket sundial

3. A perfume flask necklace

2. “An egg shell topper cutter — found this under the floor of a nineteenth-century house.”

1. The Clap-o-Meter

Do you have any strange old things like this lying around your house?