This beautiful little antique was supposed to be a pencil sharpener for the dance card of a nineteenth century French lady. However, when it arrived from my favorite brocante source...
...the design did not appear to be that of a functional pencil sharpener. Par exemple, it did not sharpen pencils.
So, I asked a house guest, a Dutch engineer, to have a look at it. After manipulating it for a very few minutes, he announced that I have a cleaver candle wick trimmer. We tried it out on several candles around the Bungalow...voila!
I do believe the Dutchman got it. What do you think?
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