What is this Dunhill tool (pin?) for? Knitting?

menuhin

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Hello forum members,
May some of the forum members know what this Dunhill tool is designed for?

One end of it is flat and a bit bent, and the other end is pointed and quite sharp but indented near the tip so there is a hook.
I hope this is not for knitting! :worship:
A early happy new year to all of you! :puffpipe:

 

huntertrw

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menuhin:
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menuhin

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Thanks for the note! Just found out the stable link to shared Google drive items may expire.

Mysterious Dunhill tool

 

pipestud

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• Dec 28, 2014

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Believe it or not, menuhin, that is a snuff spoon. One would fill up the spoon end with a favorite snuff, stick it up to a nostril, pinch the other nostril shut and take a good hard whiff. The other end was to stir the snuff up a bit to loosen it before diving in for a little spoonful.
Pipestud

 

mephistopheles

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Ooooh, snuff sounds rough! Does that cause a deviated septum like cocaine does?

 

Chasing Embers

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Tried it once. Burns like hell!

 

mcitinner1

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I was curious about trying snuff after reading about others opinions who use it, and decided pipes were enough expense for me. 8)

 

menuhin

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Thanks Pipestud.

That explain the flat end, and which I try to find snuff spoon, I come up with some similar looking items:

But I'm still perplexed by the pointed hooked end which actually looks like this:

Because if it is only for stirring, a hook is not a required function.

 

darwin

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It looks exactly like the small crochet needles my wife used.

 

pipestud

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• Dec 28, 2014

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Thanks Pipestud.

That explain the flat end, and which I try to find snuff spoon, I come up with some similar looking items:

But I'm still perplexed by the pointed hooked end which actually looks like this:

Because if it is only for stirring, a hook is not a required function.

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That's an easy one to answer. It simply is a standard opener for the top of the snuff can. You just hook it to the side of the lid and pull it up.
Pipestud

 

dochudson

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look's like it would work great for scratching down inside my ear.

 

freakiefrog

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• Dec 28, 2014

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Ok so that's how you get it in..how the hell do you get it all out, I guess you could double a pipe cleaner over.. LOL
I thinking Total Recall, the first one with the glowing booger..

 

menuhin

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• Dec 29, 2014

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Thanks again Pipestud, now I have to look up the Dunhill snuff tobacco history.

It does look like an ear scratcher dochudson! Perhaps all ear scratchers can have doubled function as a snuff spoon then. :crazy:

 

mephistopheles

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+1 DocHudson
Isn't that the truth!