What is it?
French 1900s.
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French Antique Guessing Game
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63 responses to “French Antique Guessing Game”
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A crimper.
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Some kind of hair crimper that was first heated in a fire?
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Serving tongs?
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Asparagus server?
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Whoops! I did not “gasp out loud” here, but on the previous blog I commented on!
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Serving tongs for asparagus is my guess.
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A tool to make your mustache fancy.
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Ice tongs!
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The French being oh so fancy, and these being antique, I’m guessing “silver knuckles” (instead of tacky brass) to keep tiny little workers in line at the factory; or the proper tool for holding one’s nose when experiencing “stinky cheese” for the first time. Other than that, I’d guess petit four tongs.
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For ironing ruffles into little girl’s dresses.
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This is for picking up doggie do do from Parisian sidewalks. Unfortunately, there were not very many made…
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Used by ladies to put a crimp or curl in their hair. They would set the crimped end of the tool in the wood fire to heat it through and then crimp their hair, or roll the entire lock around to curl it as well. Many a lady lost her locks by not realizing how hot the crimper had become.
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Looks like asparagus or toast tongs to me. One never knows, do one? Say, was today’s post entitled Tong in Cheek?
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To put small accordion pleats in fabric. Heat it via stove top or in a kettle of very hot water.
Really is is a caniche perm kit. The groomer would take a poodle with too straight a fur, use the tool to add curl and waves especially to the topknots. -
Heat it up and crimp your hair! My great-aunt had something simular…
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I think crimping iron, either for hair or ruffles in clothing???
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Love this one.
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A ribbon crimper??? All those gorgeous ribbons – I can see them now, fluttering…
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I’m guessing it’s actually a crimper, but it could also be used to put ridges in pancakes or pain perdu so they would hold more butter and syrup.
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Adjustable serving tongs would be my guess.
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It’s a cake server.
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These are asparagus tongs.
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A tool for putting a face edge on a cookie or some kind of pastry.
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A TOOL FOR PUTTING A FANCY EDGE ON a cookie or pastry.
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Since it looks like flatware in the first photo, I’m guessing it’s a serving piece for grabbing pastry off a serving plate…
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Tongs for putting hot coals into a non-electric iron.
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Asparagus tongs.
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I thought it was a hair crimper but that’s been stated already so I’ll go for creative answer:
It’s a parlor instrument! If you were not dexterous to play the piano or any of the other popular parlor instruments, too shrill to sing along, and too rhythmically challenged to clap along with the popular hits of the day they would hand you this thing to click away with. It was just loud enough for YOU to hear, and not loud enough for anyone else to hear so it didn’t matter if you were on or not. The little band moves up and down so you can change the “pitch” of the instrument in a similar way to changing the pitch of a string by lengthening or shortening it! This way you could still join in a raucous version of “Down at the Old Mill Stream” and not ruin everyone else’s night with your warbling 🙂 -
I also think it is a hair crimper.
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The other Marilyn already took my guess of a hair crimper.
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The other guess sound good, but I am going for an ice grabber.
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For picking up/taking out laundry while boiling them with soup.
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It should be soap* not soup in my previous post )))
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I agree with other people who guessed that they are asparagus tongs.
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you heat it up and Kink your hair with it
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you use this to make the wavy part of the cardboard between the flat pieces
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Oh, wait, I think these are the early version tool for making Ruffles potato chips.
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I believe this is used to make pleats in clothing.
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A vegetable server? If not it would be a terrific shaper for ice cream!
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Looks as though it is made out of silver, so I would guess it isn’t meant to heat on the stove for crimping collars or ribbon or hair or such things. Could it be for shaping butter? Cleaning paintbrushes? crimping paper?
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A tool used to cut cheese into a wedge.
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Asparagus tongs
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The good answer has been given … Your readers are amazing !!! They’ve become “guessing champions” !!!
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That is a fine example of a portable MMT – “Midriff Measuring Tool” – young ladies carried in their purses, along with the smelling salts. The most famous daily user was Empress Elisabeth of Austria who measured her narrow waist before and after meals, to make sure her favorite sweets, Demel’s candied violets, did not ruin her waistline.
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*giggles*
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Asparagus tongs.
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A fabric crimper like you would use to make the pleats in a French maid’s little starched cap….
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An iron to create pleats in a fancy blouse or skirt?
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For pulling a loose tooth
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A boyfriend Reprimander. You take an appendage of his and simply squeeze! Et Voila! This is why French women are so good at relationships. 🙂
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It’s for taking a wonderful loaf of bread out of the oven and giving it those great crimps at the same time — oh wait, they don’t have those crimps on the bottom. Shoot!
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A nut cracker?
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Tongs for grilling meat?
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Sugar cube tongs…big ones!
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hair curler for dogs that want to look like a French Poodle
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Cake server, for pulling out the perfect slice of cake.
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Asparagus tongs.
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Since the French like a good smoke I think it is for smoking more than one cigarette at a time. Line them up, clamp it down and puff away all day!
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Are they tongs to serve aspic salad? For frenching green beans? For edging potatoes or carrots? I’d use it to crimp gorgeous papers and ribbons for art projects.
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Heat it up, to crimp the style of your hair
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A hair crimper, that you first heat up, on a gas burner
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Used to crimp fine light weight paper to hold truffles and candies, that were displayed in pastries shops.
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Asparagus tongs.
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