Can anyone please help me identify these 2 chemistry tools?

[AlexTheMadScientist]

Hi Everyone! Nice looking Forum. Kudos!

Can anyone please help me identify these 2 chemistry/lab tools?

One looks like a tray for cooking muffins and the other one for melting lead or other metals.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Alex

 

[hypervalent_iodine]

The top one looks like a heating block for placing vessels into for incubation or evaporation. It would be placed into a heating mantle and is designed to be removable so you can change it out for one with different sized holes. We use similar ones for evaporating solvent from samples in vials. 

Unsure exactly of the bottom one, but at a guess I’d say it’s designed to be held over a Bunsen flame or similar.