What-is-it question CXCVII

[dragonflywink]

From a 1917 ad, silverplated item measuring 2½" (6.4cm) long, intended to hold something and fit onto another item which could also be of silver, but was more often made of glass...

~Cheryl

[dognose]

Hi Cheryl,

Could this be some some sort of device for flower arranging? It would clip on to the side of a vase?

Regards, Trev.

[dragonflywink]

Very good, but only half right - clips onto something other than a vase...

~Cheryl

[dognose]

Hi Cheryl,

I think you've got us all stumped with this one. Can we have a clue?

Trev.

[dragonflywink]

This might do it - the item it would be attached to, while not a vase, would hold water...

~Cheryl

[MCB]

Hello Cheryl

I'd already ruled out that it was a decoration for Cinderella's slippers because I don't recall the slippers were ever made of silver.
I''d toyed with the idea that there's a US patent on the design because it's intended to hold spare sprigs of mint for very long glasses of julep but now you say it's all about water so that also rules out the thing helping to keep one's lip away from the top of a frothy beer.
That just leaves it being a sort of device for helping to kind of, well, have things in water in, like a beaker you know or glass or jug or sort of something similar.
Please tell me I'm right.
Regards,

ekim desufnocyrev

[dragonflywink]

Greetings Mike Veryconfused - don't believe I can say much else without giving it away, but it is meant to hold flowers to the side of a vessel intended to hold water...

~Cheryl

[agphile]

Well, a fringe of flowers might add a touch of nature to a goldfish bowl or make for a more fanciful fingerbowl or ........no, my imagination fails me.

[dragonflywink]

Your imagination is just fine, agphile:



~Cheryl

[agphile]

And I thought I was joking! A nice oddity to have turned up.