Featured My old Ivory Whatsits..............soooo what is it >?

3 inches tall
7/16ths...tapering to 5/16ths.....at the carved end.
solid ivory....with black inlay design....& red at the end.
Open on both ends...

I always thought it was a cigarette holder....but modern ones are too large to cram in the opening, & I don't have any 1920's ...on hand.
( no staining from use...)

Or, is it something else ?

I've had it for so many years , I can't remember where or how I got it......

 

Is it open right straight through? If you hadn't said it was open at both ends I would have guessed an etui missing its cap(s).

 

The top...looks to be threaded inside....the bottom....clean.....but yes , drilled straight thru !!

 

funny, I hadn't noticed that before !!!

 

By top you mean the narrower, turned end? Probably had a stopper-like piece that screwed in. That line that goes around the other end suggests there was a cap that fitted over the outside. My other immediate thought, besides a needle case, was a stanhope. I didn't know some pieces are both:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/776464...stanhope+needle+case&ref=sr_gallery-1-3&frs=1

https://www.etsy.com/listing/768558...query=stanhope+needle+case&ref=sr_gallery-1-1

 

Perhaps a seal handle, missing the brass seal at the end?

 

A parasol handle?

 

A rare suppository administration device... for reluctant children...
Involving bent child and blowing Mom

 

I thought a stanhope was a type of horse-drawn carriage. I get to increase my vocabulary today. Woohoo!!

 

Komo, does the other inside end look like this, as Bronwen suggested??? If so, you'd be missing an end cover......

 

How the heck do they get a photo of that miniscule image on the end of that screw in piece???? I have an end piece with a mini image, & would LOVE to get an image of it (of can't find it ATM!!!!)!!

EDIT: THAT TINY hole you look through and this maybe 1/8" in size is what you see!!! Amazing!!

 

I'd think a cigarette holder missing its mouthpiece...

~Cheryl

 

a needle case was my 1st thought.......but I had not noticed the threads inside the turned end.

 

thinner and smaller than a king sized cigarette.....so...don't think so ..

 

u have a furtive imagination.......but i'll bet if u came across one......you could fix it !!!!

 

yes...the small end does seem to be threaded that way....for about a quarter inch inward.

 

I'm bummed I can't find my little end with the picture in the end....I remember it's a couple........

 

Could it be the handle of a mans razor?

 

This one, both pieces appearing to be ivory, has a long mouthpiece: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Ci...769414?hash=item4b782d1c06:g:JwQAAOSwpIBemffw





This one has a shorter mouthpiece: https://www.etsy.com/listing/779384..._sold_out_detail=1&ref=anchored_listing&frs=1





This is a new mammoth ivory from Russia: https://www.etsy.com/listing/819772...holder-mammoth?ref=as_recently_viewed-2&frs=1





These three show different size ends: https://www.catawiki.com/l/8722025-lot-of-3-antique-ivory-cigarette-holders-ca-1920




~Cheryl