Anybody know what the fuck this is? Was found right beside my front door window in Dublin… hardly blew in either its a hefty yoke indeed!

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1. Looks like an old clothes iron to me

2. I think so with a wooden handle that’s rotted out

3. As the the other commenter said, an old clothes iron minus its handle.

4. It’s an iron.

5. Yeah, looks like one of these alright – https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/332371307760

6. A new restoration project.

7. Definitely an old clothes iron, as far as I remember there should be a metal insert that you can remove. The insert was placed in a fireplace to heat it up and then inserted back into the iron. Don’t know if this is the case here.

   Get someone to make a handle for it, clean it up , I think it would make an interesting decoration.

8. Thats what you use to iron your clothes when the blackouts begin!

9. People pay good money for old bric-a-brac

10. That might be worth a few bob

11. [That’s a Monopoly piece for playing jumbo Monopoly](https://grantland.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/grant_worldofmonopoly_iron_60011.jpg)

12. Clothes iron you heated over the fire. Used to have a metal coil handle so it did not burn your hands.

13. It’s an iron based on what you are wearing easy for you not to know 😜

14. An old clothes iron

15. It’s a warning from the Laundry and Clothes Ironing guild.

16. Its antique iron , that you’d heat up on a fire (or a range(and use . would have been a wooden handle between the two round holes at the top. You wouldnt see many of them after the 1960s as there were still a lot of nana’s/granny’s who *”wouldnt use that eletrical yoke”* back then.

    Whats weird though is that its got Kilos ..as everything in Ireland back then was still in imperial weights ..might be French or German?

17. I’v been looking for one to clean up and use as a steak or tofu weight. Nice

18. One of those monopoly Irons . Someone either owes you rent or a lump sum if you own the house .

19. Old iron probably used as a door stop now.

20. Yep it’s an old iron, some of them had a shield you slip on after heating it up as not to blacken the clothes, make a grand door stop, have you made any enemies cause if it wasn’t there before, it might have been destined for your window

21. Its an old clothes iron

22. You seriously couldn’t guess what this is???

23. Could also be a cutters (tailor) iron. They’re heavy to mesh lining to the insides of suits.
    Have a look at the movie called “The Outfit”, there’s s scene in it, where he has a similar yoke.

24. It’s a clothes iron, missing the wooden handle.

25. Most people had less than 10 items of clothing back then **vs** the big piles of ironing you see in most houses nowadays

26. Don’t touch it. It is used by drug users to smoke herion and hasheesh may have aids on it.

27. Pretty sure whoever left that there has to pay you money for stopping in front of your house, but idk I haven’t played monopoly in a while.

28. Did you really need to ask Reddit? It’s fairly obvious what it is. There’s two things shaped like that in the world, an iron and a boat; and you’d be hard pushed to go sailing on that.

    @Karmaconspiracy

29. its. an old clothes iron