Savannah, you are correct. A cosh is typically a rigid bar or stick used as a bludgeon, whereas what is pictured is flexible and referred to as a blackjack, and usually contains lead pellets within the bulbous end. Originally the term "sap", derived from "sapling", from which the weapon was made, also described a rigid type of bludgeon, but is now used casually and informally, as Jedediah has demonstrated.
#8 coffee beans grinder. Have one just the same and one more but its bigger. When i was small i used to grind coffee on it every time i visit my grandparents. Those 2 that i have now are from them.
Savannah, you are correct. A cosh is typically a rigid bar or stick used as a bludgeon, whereas what is pictured is flexible and referred to as a blackjack, and usually contains lead pellets within the bulbous end. Originally the term "sap", derived from "sapling", from which the weapon was made, also described a rigid type of bludgeon, but is now used casually and informally, as Jedediah has demonstrated.
#8 coffee beans grinder. Have one just the same and one more but its bigger. When i was small i used to grind coffee on it every time i visit my grandparents. Those 2 that i have now are from them.
You can read more about them here:
www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/the-leather-sap-old-school-but-is-it-legal/
I've always heard them called blackjacks
Same
You mean back when they could indescriminantly cause internal bleeding and cuncussions and pretend nothing happened?
#8 is a Turkish coffee grinder. I have one exactly like this one that I got in Turkey in 1972.
Hmmm... I thought a cosh was more like a nightstick.....
When i was small i used to grind coffee on it every time i visit my grandparents. Those 2 that i have now are from them.