This is a collection of unusual objects that have been crafted to intrigue and amuse – to tickle the intellect.  They have presumably been collected by Uncle Unger.  Remember?  The odd one with the unkempt hair, clothes from a different era, and a not entirely unpleasant odor of linseed oil, Morels, and tobacco.  The one who never married, living alone in that dark house filled to the brim with stories - the house that always made you slightly uncomfortable, but not enough to make you want to leave.