11-07-2019 09:02 AM
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.
11-07-2019 11:00 AM - edited 11-07-2019 11:01 AM
Looks like a dishrag holder for washing pots and pans.
11-07-2019 11:31 AM
Maybe a Victorian skirt lifter, hankie holder, glove holder...chatelaine "tool."
11-07-2019 12:50 PM
or perhaps a "roach clip" circa 1960.
11-07-2019 03:44 PM
@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.
11-07-2019 04:03 PM - edited 11-07-2019 04:06 PM
@dirk12955 wrote:
@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.
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.
11-07-2019 05:01 PM
11-07-2019 07:32 PM
I didn't have to read any of this, I live in California!