Featured A mini wooden billy club or what?

I bought a box lot last minute without really thinking about it because I thought there were 2 billy clubs in the box. I was wrong. One was a button hook with a big wooden handle and the other was this. (first picture)

It's a bit small and lightweight to be a billy club. Google pics tells me it's a gun cleaning rod (way too short), a lacemaking bobbin (there's very little weight to it), a honey dipper (they have deeper grooves and flat ends). I thought maybe a pestle for small items like pills or something pharmaceutical. But nothing comes up like it.

The second pic shows what I had as a picture before I hit that BID NOW button.

Anyone know what it is?

 

That's one of the things Google pictures thought too. But I think they're usually a finer grained wood. And they're usually cut much deeper.

 

A glove darner.

 

Definitely a sewing tool of some sort...or maybe knitting? . Glove darner would surprise me ; I think it's too wide for that. There is no way it was made for honey; it's shaped all wrong.

 

Looks like a lace bobbin to me. They don't have to be real heavy.

 

It might be.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-victorian-wood-darner-glove-4802606531

 

I came across the piece to the left in your pic. It was a uniform repair kit for the French Army in WWI. Threads were wrapped around the smaller parts. And it came apart in the middle and had an awl and space for needles.

 

a likely story.....//////////......

 

As an old antiques dealer I know once said:

"Whatever it does, it's doing it now, and TOBIAS made it".

"Who's Tobias?"

"Two old bastards in a shed!"

 

How about for 'mulling' herbs, citrus an' sugar in a cocktail?

 

Thanks for a big smile in remembering that "old antiques dealer"!!

 

Reminds me of our dear departed member who always said things were made by "some bloke in a shed."

 

For our newer members, I think @kentworld & I were both thinking of a gentleman who went by "afantiques". You can see his remembrance thread in the general discussion section. He was quite the character!!

 

Yes, we were. He had an encyclopedic memory when it came to clocks. Miss him and some of the others that have left us...

 

The vast amount of memory and expertise is being lost. AI can only do so much because the algorithm relies on what REAL PEOPLE have said and done. It can't generate new information on its own.

 

I think it's some kind of bobbin similar to these. I was a bobbin girl at Chicopee Mill in Manchester NH in the late 60s. We used these in the machines. The weighted end on yours looks more like weaving or lace making - perhaps too large for lace. I don't think with that finish it could be used on food or drink.

 

ditto on muddler (similar function as pestle as you noted) like the one in the middle below