Quiz: Anyone Know What It Is?

[shaintiques]

A nail pry bar?

 

[chagovatoloco]

Button stick, for polishing brass buttons.

 

[puffinbilly]

Bang on, Looks like it's chagovatoloco's turn to root about in the cellar in search of a new contrivance.

Bill

By the way Soldiers (darn Redcoats at that) used it to slip behind the brass buttons on their best dress tunic so that the cloth didn’t get dirty when they polished the button. I think the swanky one was however made in the states.

 

[plateauguy]

OK, crawled up on a stool (fever and all) to take pictures of our beams in the house - didn't feel like going out to the shop:

 

[john218]

I don't know about the top one, Plateauguy, but the bottom one is an ice chipper that was common when people had ice boxes instead of refrigerators.
There's something very similar to it sold today, for breaking up chocolate.
Okay, just read the wording on the top one. It's used for sealing jars?

 

[shaintiques]

As promised here is a pic of the barrel knife with the blade open.

 

[plateauguy]

The top one is a turn of the century jar opener, and John got the second one - bet some of the guys never heard of an icebox instead of a refrigerator.
The beams in our kitchen are covered with antique kitchen utensils - almost like a torture chamber.