ANSWER: CONSENSUS IS SWIZZLE STICK
Got this thinking it was a chatelaine pencil. Finally opened it and now have no idea what it is. The center piece and prongs are quite delicate. It was definitely made to be hung from chain or something (see top).
Betsy Keep
Got this thinking it was a chatelaine pencil. Finally opened it and now have no idea what it is. The center piece and prongs are quite delicate. It was definitely made to be hung from chain or something (see top).
Betsy Keep
"It's a pipe cleaner" --Sheri Weiss, 04/16/09
"I bought one like it in england and was told it was a champagne stirrer to either remove bubbles or make more bubbles, i cannot remember which and was circa 1920's. The one i got was sterling and i just thought it was neat." --Arlene Hjulian, 04/16/09
"Champagne stirrer!" --Julie Levine, 04/16/09
"I have always been told that these were pipe cleaners." --Carolyn Sunday, 04/16/09
"it looks a lot like a whisk, so I'd go with the champagne stirrer idea. Or stirring something." --Linda Jo Mitchell, 04/16/09
"It is a 'Swizzel stick' for stirring cocktails. I think I saw one in the Army and Navy Stores catalogue for 1939. I'll look it up soon." --Mary in England, 04/16/09
"It seems as though it was mainly a thirties thing and that Americans used it for champagne bubbles although the British kept their bubbles :-) Both of us used it for cocktails or spirits with ice." --Mary in England, 04/16/09
"It is a swizzle stick: used to stir the bubbles out of the champagne, or to keep your mixed drink perfect." --Alice Isaksen, 04/16/09
"I have my dads, that he used to wear on his watch chain. Since he was a vintner, this was something he was never without." --Dinah Taylor, 04/16/09
"Yes,it is a swizzle stick to stir the bubbles out of the champagne. Women were heavenly powdered and the bubbles would land on the powdered face and a wipe of your glove covered hand or your hankie would remove the face powder." --Linda, 12/16/12
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