Anyone have an idea of who might have made this? It’s so whimsical and fun that I don’t want to price it based on other examples and find out down the line that it’s “something”. It’s a cheese marker I assume. Pretty heavy too.
That is the cutest thing ever ! Id never heard of a cheese marker before.Very interesting . For no good reason I get a Danish vibe,but I think they marked everything so I dont know. Minimum Id ask $125-150 and see how it goes.
I've seen cheese markers before, but never a sterling one. They're usually ceramic. You write the name of the cheese on them. Not sure how this little guy would work.
Yeh that’s kind of where I was thinking for range if it’s not identified. I figured American but could be anywhere. I thought it kind ok looked like an early race car tapered backwards.
Turns out sterling ones were pretty popular. I didn’t look close at dates but probably late 19th and early 20th range. Obviously for the upper crust, not those living amongst the rodents. If there was some slightly useful but absolutely unnecessary object available to them they’d inevitably ask someone to make it out of silver. You’re right though, there’s no real way to ID a cheez specifically using this one. Many you can use like a place setting and add a little card to with the name of the chz on it. Or some have the name of a chz already on them like a liquor tag. This one I guess you just tell your guests that the cheddar has the whimsical silver mouse on it and the Gruyère is the one sans mouse.
Could just be decorative too. I would absolutely buy (non-silver) cute animals to stick in cheeses for the hell of it. Decoration doesn't have to be practical!
Could be yeh. Who knows what those folks got up to. You could stick this mouse anywhere soft enough to receive it.
Not much help...... but I can assure you that it is always the second mouse that gets the cheese !!!!
This cute guy is most likely a cheese knob/button, used to steady a cheese ball or block of cheese when cutting or scooping a serving rather than using one's fingers. The older pieces dating from the 19th century into the 20th usually had a worm like a corkscrew, my Mom's set of porcelain knobs used three spikes, have seen them with two as well. Would guess he's American, circa 1960s-70s... ~Cheryl
If you look at his nose straight on does it look like something might have been attached to that blank space?
