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So I’ve stared at the image above enough to go cross-eyed. And I’m out of ideas.
Earlier this week, Mike Wenzloff asked me if I knew what these round-looking things were beneath nearly all the benches shown in the La Forge Royale woodworking catalog from the early 20th century.
They show up on all the large benches in this French catalog. The things are drawn to suggest that they are round. And they extend quite a ways below the benchtop. All of them appear to pierce the stretchers below the benchtop.
Wenzloff wondered if they were perhaps a wooden screw that would secure the benchtop to the base. That’s the best explanation I could come up with, too. But I wanted to tap the collective wisdom and weirdness of the Internet.
Got any ideas? Post them in the comments below.
To make things easier for you, I’ve uploaded a high-resolution scan of this particular bench that you can download by clicking on the link below.
LaForgeBench222-223.jpg (1.43 MB)
– Christopher Schwarz
