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This is a pirate's hat-shaped finial which attaches atop the newel
posts at either end of a domestic staircase. Its wide brim prevents
wives and children using these posts as impromptu coat hangers.
Quoted from Summerset section
http://en.wikipedia...In_Death_characters
Fiction, but... [popbottle, Dec 28 2014]
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An extremely sharp carbon-steel spike with razor-sharp flutes,
designed to destroy anything placed on it, would be better; but still,
[+]. |
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Ar me hearties pirate rowers await execution of / for their cloak and dagger plans on the barrister. |
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In GCHQ's old building, they had a less attractive
version of this: perpex semicircles screwed to the
finials. It was for the same reason, though: to stop
visitors hanging coats or bags (or bombs) there. |
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Running gag in the "In death" series by j.d. robb |
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"she throws her jacket on the newel post at the foot of the main staircase because she knows it annoys him" |
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Him = Summerset The butler |
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Compressed air blowing the jacket off, or a (hidden) lightly sprung hinge as the attachment point of finial & newel. In either case the jacket gets draped on the finial, and the finial blows or drops it off. |
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Alternatively make the post as tall as the floor, but I have an
instinctive dislike for deliberately making anything less useful
in any way so [-] |
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