Unknown strange thing... tool?
 

I dont have a clue what this mysterious object is! It has a hole on the back so it seems it was attached on a shaft.
Any ideas welcome!

looks like some sort of voodoo device ???

Perhaps it's an elaborate serving fork?

Those inlays on the wood handle look a bit like some sort of astrological sign, but if it's a ritual tool, it's a new one on me.

My other guess is that it's what we call a doodad here in the US, possibly made by a hobbyist with some time on his hands and, shall we politely say, a unique sense of design?

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IMHO it is a highly advanced pair of hedging shears where you set the angle of the cut using the adjustable hands , the inscriptions are to inform the user as to the correct phase of the moon for each hedge plant, unfortunately the mechanism for activating the blades has long since disappeared :D :D :D
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What parts, if any, were ever sharpened. Looks almost like a device to cut a rope. In old naval battles, they would load the cannons with steel bars, & shoot high to damage the riggings & sails. I wonder if in some old naval battles they ever threw hooks or gaffs on a rope to try & pull down/damage riggings. If they did, maybe your "device" might be used to cut the offending ropes. ...or a voodoo doodad serving fork

The bladed section looks like a set of sheep shearing clippers......perhaps it was used by a 'wandering' sheep shearer.
The 'device' is mounted on a pole placed in the ground.....the two rotating pointers are in fact hour/minute hands......set at the time shearing services are available......hey presto... a mobile sign...that tells you the services offered and his 'opening time' without the use of language....... :D

I'll take a WAG and say a masonry or builders tool for mapping angles and positions.

Might that be some kind of time keeping device? Perhaps if you set it up correctly it would lead you to the ark of the covenant. :confused:

http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/images...0new%20ark.jpg

n2s

Looks to be a staffhead from a Shi'ite processional, work probably
Hazara (Afghan.) Interesting piece


Ham