Assuming it has anything to do with lace at all, could it be the measuring device for an "ell" of lace, which was the increment in which lace was sold. Someone once told me that lacemakers of the past made it by the ell and often lace borders sewn together in ell long lengths if you look at it closely. I think the name for the upper object is a plior. They were selling these, newly made, in the museum in Brioude, and someone in one of the small villages that I didn't visit, still carves them, and was suggested as a possible stop on my zip through the Le Puy area. However, that was one stop I didn't make. Devon
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