Mystery Object...

It's used for castrating elephants
Does it hurt
Only if you get your thumb in the way

I'm here all week at the Barnsley civic hall

 

I did think it might be a Yorkshire threddling flange. Still use them in Barnsley.

 

Is it one of the bed knobs from the film bed knobs and broom sticks?

 

Ah, it's a Barnsley wife catcher?

 

I think they still catch them in a sack.

 

Bedknob?

 

Give it a good clout and get some of that carp off It Snotts.

 

You're thinking of ferrets.

 

Just put it in the shed and make up any old story when someone asks you what it is.