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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dawnno, post: 586054, member: 10171&quot;]no experience in this area, but my stab in the dark is it looks like a cleaning tool of some kind.&nbsp; Think of the long piece as a &#039;shoe horn&#039; through which a pipe cleaner or thin rod is inserted into the &#039;hole end&#039; and guided to the other end which is inserted into an opening... supposition only.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would imagine that older pipes could be broken or cracked, so to ream something out, it would take a bit of force and you didn&#039;t want to &#039;jar&#039; any thing.&nbsp;&nbsp; Just a guess.&nbsp;&nbsp; There&#039;s no wear around the tip though, so maybe not a tool, a temporary stand?&nbsp; insert the object into the hole to hold it in a cantilevered position temporarily... that way you can hold the container and end down at the same time.&nbsp;&nbsp; EXPERT HELP please!</p><p><br /></p><p>The container might have held a cloth, cleaning implement, tobacco?&nbsp; It has the design of a plum, so wondering if that&#039;s meaningful.&nbsp;&nbsp; And the bead strikes me as very netsuke like.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not native american.&nbsp; I can be sure its a thing with a hole next to a penny and quarter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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