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Before or after, open or closed — the photos of this month’s "Guess What" are extremely sharp in detail. Working the handles like a pliers enabled the inner series of ridges and spikes (not visible) to protrude or recede as manipulated. Well-made of nickel on brass, this piece was made in France — which has nothing to do with its function or application. We will tell you it’s a household item, and the room in which it’s used is a partial clue. Size: 4" long by 1½" diameter.

We assigned our trusted "Committee for Consumer Standards" the task of coming up with possible alternative suggestions. Here are their findings:
1) Kielbasa sausage link tie-off marker
2) Teething ring for a baby piranha 
3) Ankle bracelet for masochists 
4) Plumber’s pipe cutting working gauge 
5) Herpetologists snake venom milking de-vice 
6) Rind-piercing kitchen tool for easy tangerine peeling 
7) Instant injection pattern marker for mass production tat-tooing 
8) Garden hose sprinkler effect puncture tool 
9) Onion juicer and segment perforator 
10) Callous softener and tenderizer 
11) Asparagus stalk cut-off gauge 
12) Condom burst stress tester 
13) Carrot scraper 
14) Sesame seed harvester 
15) Celery stalk de-stringer 
16) Bull nose-ring installation pincers 
17) Cigar cutter.

Enough razzle dazzle for one session? Work hard at it — and your efforts will be rewarded next month with the answer. Till then.

*Thanks to the inexhaustible Mike Goodman, collector, Massachusetts.

    Answer to February's Guess What..?