Shadows of a Forgotten World

An interesting type of book scraper which I haven't seen before These are hinged so they can be kept upright and out of the way when not being used Chained to the corner of the door

I didn't find many old manhole covers in Stockholm, and the ones that I did find were all connected to the telecommunications infrastructure, in particular, from the company Rikstelefon . This one dates from 1909 - it is similar to Swedish-made manhole cover that I found in  Riga .

There are quite a few of these Rikstelefon markers in Stockholm. (Rikstelefon was a brand of Televerket, which was a Swedish government agency responsible for telecommunications from 1853 to 1993.) They include some numbers and an arrow so I assume they point to a manhole cover or something else that is part of the old telecommunications infrastructure.

A few old Rikstelefon phone booths can still be found in Stockholm.  Rikstelefon was a brand of Televerket, which was a Swedish government agency responsible for telecommunications from 1853 to 1993. Rikstelefon means that the telephone could connect between cities (i.e. long-distance). These last two are located in Stockholm's open-air museum Some of the old phone booths have been repurposed for other uses, for example, one was turned into a mini library

Many of Stockholm's old buildings, especially in the Old Town, used to serve as storehouses/merchants' houses, and thus remnants of the hoist systems can still be found.

A sampling of Stockholm's various kinds of guard stones . Stone Cannon Pipes Finding these only confirmed that the cannon that I saw in Riga  were indeed used as guard stones Next to this cannon is a rune stone, which is 1,000 years old.  More info about it here . Metal