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Have had this for many years, and still have no idea what it is for! I am sure one of you knowledgeable lot will soon tell me.

 

is it wood....is the tip bone.......any marks ???

 

Yes it is wood, and I fairly sure the tip is bone. No marks.

 

A fork for person on diet?

 

i was thinking a pottery tool......just off the cuff...
but it's too delicate..

 

The bronze end gets heated up, if I'm guessing. Hair tool? It looks like something that was made to match a curling iron. (and someone who knows will show up with the correct answer sooner or later. Or a marking tool for pyrography? Woodburning tools could look like that too; I'm not familiar enough to be sure.

 

Kyra is quite the little devil today

 

Yes, maybe something for weaving. This is an old Dutch example. I'll see if I can get the translation.

A bronze double weaving comb from the second half of the 15th century (Fig. 108) is unusual in shape. The comb is in one piece:
two of the four knobs in the middle of it are mounted after the iron-iron weaving comb from the 17th or 18th century, now present in the Musée le Secq des Tournelles in Rouen 13.. As far as we know, the only parallel is one

 

I am leaning heavily towards a weaving comb/tool.

These are hand made by the Navajo people, but you get the idea.

 

Bronze...... R U on the right thread?

 

In the first caption they call it cast brass, which seems right for that kind of implement.
('geelkoper' literally yellow copper. For some reason many Dutch people call brass copper )

 

That sounds quite possible, but any ideas about round hollow below the prongs?

 

That is a great question.

 

It does look like a textile tool. Such items were often made by a man for his sweetheart. Perhaps the round recess originally held a personalized medallion of some sort.
Perhaps it was a comb for packing the weft in band weaving. Just a thought.

 

The comb end is brass, not sure if my pics show up well?

 

Apology's Ruth.....I was let to believe otherwise !!!!

 

& why exactly did u not mention the metal.....when I so nicely inquired ???

 

Sorry

I honestly thought my pics clearly showed the comb end was metal!
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