What is this ? I need help

[*the_off_grid_store*]

Constructed from spring steel and brass and operates like a locking pair of tweezers. It's 3-3/4" long and 1/8" thick. The one end is opened and when the brass collar is moved outward it locks the two tips together. 

[sonomabarn67]

Looks like a dishrag holder for washing pots and pans.

[crowleys]

Maybe a Victorian skirt lifter, hankie holder, glove holder...chatelaine "tool." 

[all_fakes]

or perhaps a "roach clip" circa 1960. 

[dirk12955]

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@all_fakes wrote:

or perhaps a "roach clip" circa 1960. 

If you squeeze the roach too tightly, would't that render the roach  Inoperative?

Or so I've read.      

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[wesk_36]

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@dirk12955 wrote:

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@all_fakes wrote:

or perhaps a "roach clip" circa 1960. 

If you squeeze the roach too tightly, would't that render the roach  Inoperative?

Or so I've read.      

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The idea was to clip the edge of the roach but not squeeze off the entire end so that it still allowed airflow, or so I've read. Some of them were handmade and very ornate like this, if that is what it is, or so I've heard.

[micesco-0]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/268938063/marajuana-smoking-implement-cannabis?

[sonomabarn67]

I didn't have to read any of this, I live in California!