Yes, I know that feeling!

Yet another round of the curious and the mad from our local auction house’s latest catalogue. Strange things and eccentric juxtapositions.
Interesting items including two pewter miniature boxes, an ambrotype, a Stratton floral compact, a Trinity College membership card, two walking stick handles, one with a silver mount, a miniature mirror, a miniature Bible, old bone-handled miniature brushes, one stamped Savory & Moore, a dried seahorse, a watch movement, a seal, pencil sharpener, etc.
Presumably the seal was after the seahorse as a light snack?
An interesting lot including a pair of spurs, an old burr wood snuff box, a pocket watch, cigarette case, AA badge, a crop, cigarette holder in carrying case, whisky flask, watches, costume jewellery, etc., and a leather notepad with silver corners
18 lead soldier musicians and 10 First World War lead soldiers, tanks, etc., and two small iron shoe lasts
A box of decorative crucifixes
A portrait miniature of a lady in a white cap and high-waisted blue dress, English School, c.1815, a miniature watercolour portrait sketch of a lady, English School, c.1825, a small bronzed silhouette of a young man, English School, early 19th century, all in black papier-mache frames, and an old photograph of a gentleman in a folding leather travelling case
Very small man, or good escapologist, if he fits in a folding travelling case!
A good quantity of interesting items including a large fish jaw with sharp teeth, a swagger stick with silver plated knop, a decorative brass clock, an oak desk inkstand with brass inkwells, 3 vintage fountain pens including Parker, a heavy figurine of the obelisk, 19th Century wooden gavel, a small quantity of Mappin & Webb silver plated cutlery, goblet on stand and a Balinese wooden Fo dog
A quantity of vintage wooden shoe horns and cobblers lasts
A pair of spelter gilt decorated table lamps in an organic style plus a pair of similar column candlesticks in the form of classical maidens on three decorative feet
I wonder when classical maidens evolved out their third foot?
A quantity of interesting items including a vintage top hat by GA Dunn & Co London, a boater by the York Hat Co, a quantity of kids toys to include a large doll, clown puppet, guitars, model soldiers, a drum by Peak Frean and a quantity of ornaments to include Bisson, tigers and a toy bird in cage, pearly king jacket, quantity of linen, etc.
A green leather vanity case by Mappin & Webb … two 19th Century heavy adjustable lamp bases on hairy feet, a cased Imperial typewriter …
A quantity of old medical syringes, a vintage Halford car horn, brass ceiling mounts, a cased set of butter knives, wooden frame, humorous oriental recumbent man, a leather and glass hip flask with silver plated lid etc.
A decorative sword, a Sony carl Zeiss handycam, an old violin, a brass and glass ceiling light and a decorative moon wall plaque
Two incomplete sectional walking sticks, one in specimen woods, the other in horn, antique or vintage, and a plain incomplete stick, possibly a penis bone
An interesting collection of African objects, comprising three carved wood figures, two carved and painted masks, ceremonial knife, fly whisk, wooden jar, goat toe armbands, also a globular box and a pair of ram horns
A vintage rhinoceros foot worked as a plant pot, circa 1900, an old whale tooth and a section of mammoth tusk
Clearly essential for every home!
A good pair of Italian reliquary panels, each with glazed recesses of rolled paper work enclosing named relics within an elaborate cushion frame in carved giltwood and cut paper, together with a small needlework reliquary panel, all probably early 18th century, together with a later reliquary and a carved wood portrait panel of a pope
An old Australian Aborigine boomerang, one surface carved overall with a wave pattern and with possible seaweed motifs at the ends, 66.5cms, and a club, possibly for throwing, with reeded finish and roughened end, 70cms
A miscellaneous collections of exotic items, Middle and Far Eastern, Indian, Maori, etc., comprising seven carved wood masks, a wooden figure, perched stone bird, Indonesian puppet, and six other items
An old waist and wrist manacle in leather and steel
Exactly what you need for your dungeon.
6 old irons, one possibly Tudor period, others 19th century ready for the coal to be added
I’m not very convinced the Tudors had smoothing irons!
A quantity of new sinks including a large kitchen sink, shower tray and bathroom sink
I think my brain hurts!

I can identify with that …

And so, it has come to pass that the time is upon us when we need to answer the next of my Five Questions.

★★★☆☆
Question 3: How can you drop a raw egg on a concrete floor without cracking it?
You will need:
1 raw egg (species of dinosaur donor of egg immaterial)
an uncracked concrete floor
a hand (or similar holding device)
Method:
1. Grasp egg in hand.
2. Hold the egg above the concrete floor.
3. Release the egg.
4. Observe the effects of gravity.
5. Observe also that the egg hits the floor.
6. Clean any mess of egg from the floor.
7. Observe the floor.
Result:
1. One cracked egg.
2. As requested, one undamaged concrete floor.
Other methods may be possible but have not been verified experimentally.

I suspect a number of my friends will be able to identify with this (from one side or the other!) …