Aged Design

During thanksgiving, I visited my grandparents who live on a farm way out in the heart of Mississippi. Like many southern folk, they have a big shed full of ancient things they will never use but can't bare get rid of. These are some pictures I took of some of the typography/logos/industrial design I came across when I was exploring.























This random tool interested me, and when I asked my grandfather what purpose it served, he told me that it is used for deshelling (?) corn. You put the corn cob in the top part and drop it down into the middle and turn the levers and somehow it takes the shell/leafage off.