In old navy ships, high ranking officers would be lifted onto the ships instead of climbing on board. The artifact shown in the top picture would be attached to a block on the davit with a line. The officer would have the chair put under him, and then sideboys would lift him onto the deck of the ship on the command of the instrument shown in the bottom picture.
It is from the instrument that the artifact gets its name. Identify.
PS: Nowadays you might run into one of these when someone is trying to paint or clean a multi-storey building et al....
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Would this be the Cherry picker ?
Bosun & Bosun's chair
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