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Bottle Jack for roasting meat in front of an open fire, wound up with a key.	Electric Bed Warmer. American design in the shape of a hot water bottle but in Bakelite, by Rothermel, 1943.	Magneto-Electric machine for the treatment of headaches, toothache and other ailments.	Wig Stand, common in the C18 when wigs were very popular.
Potato Planter. Tools like this would have been widely used in market gardens around the borough.	Sterilizer, designed to hold a sterilizing solution for glass bottles and similar objects.	Cork Squeezer. used by shops for re-corking bottles until the 1930s.	Gas Heater, ca 1930. The burner is under the flap, usually kept closed, and heat radiated from the metal casing.