What is it for mechanical slide wisk? Sterling Buddah finial

[RS]

Hello everyone, What was this used for? any ideas? Works somewhat like a antique slide pencil, wire prongs slide out of shaft, looks like a stirring item. Any help will be appreciated. Marked Sterling


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[dragonflywink]

Swizzle stick.

~Cheryl
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[silverport]

Hello

I've seen in use something similar in an Ethnographic Museum during a public explanation and presentation of a Japanese tea ceremony.

There were so many visitors - so it was impossible to could see and study details.

An association between Buddha and Champagne seems to me is more irrelevant then Buddha and tea.

If you don’t have a swizzle-stick for yours Champagne? Why not use this?

Kind regards silverport
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[dragonflywink]

It's a swizzle stick, pretty common form and almost certainly post-WWII Japanese, they were produced with various finials (fans, pagodas, etc.) and sometimes sold in boxed sets of six.

~Cheryl
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[SebastianBaird]

I think it is used to froth a beverage.
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[dragonflywink]

Could certainly be used for any purpose desired, but they were and are marketed as retractable swizzle sticks, intended to stir up the bubbles in Chanpagne or stirring cocktails. They suppposedly date back to the 1920s-30s, but most that I've run across over the years (in silver, gold and other metals) seem to have dated from the '40s or later. Not particularly uncommon, they are still produced by numerous makers.

~Cheryl
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