Perhaps just as simple as something for a barber? Just to avoid hair pehaps from a moustache falling in your mouth :-) In other words, I don't know... Br, Dirk
Thanks All, I like the moustache and finger nail trimmer idea but Salman is the closest; it is indeed used to trim candle wicks, although it was known as a candle snuffer. These days we think of those cup-shaped candle extinguishers as “candle snuffers”, ...
… this one is a replica, in pewter and blackwood, of an original found in the wreckage of the Katherine Shearer, a 440 ton barque that exploded off Esperance in 1855 when a fire, lit be an arsonist onboard, reached the cargo of 9 tons of gunpowder. Wrecka...