Wow!!!!!! It seems I opened the floodgates with my mystery item!!!!
Having only posted not quite 24 hours ago I now have over 50
responses, far, far too many to reply to individually. So this is my
heartfelt thanks to you all for your suggestions. I have finally
discovered that we have been pondering over a cigar cutter. My DH
explained it to me - when a person chews off the end of a cigar they
are really releasing the sealed end of the cigar so that one can draw
air through the cigar, hence have a good smoke. So, our little tool
pokes a hole in the end of the cigar. Voila!!! it can now be smoked
with pleasure.
Someone suggested that the lady of the house hid the cigar cutter in
her sewing box to stop her DH from smoking but methinks it might have
been the lady herself smoking the cigar. Didn't the
Victorian/Edwardian lady sometimes smoke a cigar after dinner?
Thanks again everyone,
Shirley T. - off to make some lace now.
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