Be the first to guess what the pictured item is by leaving a comment below. If you have your own whatsit, our editors may include it in a future post. Please send an email to editor@kovels.com and attach a clear picture, the size and any markings. Hopefully, we will be able to identify it for our readers!
Size is approximately 6 inches long by 1 3/4 inches high by 1 1/2 wide.
Note: For those of you who signed up to get notified of each response (by checking the “Notify me of follow-up comments” box in the “Add Comments” section) and find it’s generating too much email, you can unsubscribe to the “Whatsitwednesday” comments by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the “Whatsitwednesday” email you receive.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
This one stumped everyone but a few folks, both here and on social media. It’s a Victorian sterling blotter with a sterling undercase. Well done or better luck next time, as the case may be.
Happy Thanksgiving from our house to yours!
Nail buffer
Silver dressing table set?
wow! the measurements given sure don’t seem to match the photo again! But ignoring those, I agree with all those who’ve said it is a sterling nail buffer
Nail Buffer
It looks like a communion plate, especially used for the flat bread or crackers.
A fountain pen ink blotter. Either that, or the bottom is an ink pad and the top part is a stamp.
It looks like a nail buffer that belongs to a vanity set?
Silver handled nail buffer
Fingernail buffer.
Butter dish.
Looks like a nail buffer my grandmother had. The base was covered in chamois and the results were lovely.
Sterling silver nail buffer?
Ink blotter, maybe.
An antique silver nail buffer
Ink blotter