Name this Anchor - How is it used.

[LONG_KEELER]

I feel that the "Name this anchor - how it is used" posed by Long Keeler was far too easy for the members of this website. Below are photos of an anchor which I trust will present more of a challenge to name and describe its use. The prongs fold as shown in the photo.

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Apart from having a menacing face and a big nose I'm stumped.

It reminds me of some torturing implements I saw in Ghent castle.

 

[Neeves]

I don't think its an anchor at all.

It might be a rendition in steel of an Ordovician Trilobite for a 3rd rate science fiction movie along the lines of Bruce Wyndham and 'The day of the Triffids' or 'The Kraken Wakes'

Jonathan

 

[LiftyK]

I once owned two Flook anchors and i still have one. It was fine for a lunch stop on my small runabout motor boat. It was quite novel to stop the boat where you wanted to be and then let the anchor fly away to dig in to do its stuff.