Any ideas what is is? Shoe Horn? Something for a musical Instrument?

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- 07/20/2022 at 1:14 pm #97043
  debitendcredits
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  Location: Albuquerque, NM
  @debitendcreits
  Measures 8.6 long. Made from resin. It’s the same material that one would make a show horn or guitar pick.
  
  https://imgur.com/d4j4odG
  
  https://imgur.com/d4j4odG
- 07/20/2022 at 1:28 pm #97044
  Antique Frog
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  Location: Leicester
  @antique-frog
  I reckon shoe horn; it’s advertising something as ‘union made’, and it’s probably referring to something other than itself (because it would be a bit odd boasting that about a resin stick.)
- 07/20/2022 at 1:33 pm #97045
  Jay
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  Location: Virginia
  @jay
  You likely already know its from a beer brand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._Kaier_Company
  
  Doesnt look like a shoe horn but I have no idea.
- 07/20/2022 at 1:34 pm #97046
  Antique Frog
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  Location: Leicester
  @antique-frog
  Foam scraper
  
  I wuz wrong! But I did read it as Kaler’s.
- 07/20/2022 at 1:36 pm #97047
  Antique Frog
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  Location: Leicester
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  Hmm… orange burl bakelite and silver, and used in an opera house.
- 07/20/2022 at 5:54 pm #97050
  debitendcredits
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  @debitendcreits
  Wow Thanks Antique Frog – NEVER even know there was such a thing.
  
  LOL this is from depths of a death pile, I don’t even know where I got it from.
- 07/20/2022 at 11:16 pm #97052
  Antique Frog
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  Location: Leicester
  @antique-frog
  Kaier’s Opera House
  
  I was expecting the kind of establishment where you rode your horse up to the bar, but it looks quite posh!
- 07/21/2022 at 10:41 am #97054
  debitendcredits
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  Location: Albuquerque, NM
  @debitendcreits
  No matter how long any of us do this, it always bears repeating-
  
  Do your due diligence on every piece of crap you put your hands on. Just because you don’t know what it is, doesn’t mean it does not have value.
  
  I just sold my “shoe horn” for $230.00
- 07/21/2022 at 10:42 am #97055
  Sharyn
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  Location: Central NJ
  @sharyn
  So true, and has helped me many times. Congratulations on that sale!
- 07/21/2022 at 12:55 pm #97056
  Ryanne
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  Location: Virginia
  @ryanne
  Did I miss part of the convo? What was this thing?
  
  Amen to not throwing anything out before researching it!!
- 07/21/2022 at 1:19 pm #97057
  debitendcredits
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  Location: Albuquerque, NM
  @debitendcreits
  Photo should be at the top of the feed. I found what I thought was a very unusual shoehorn at the bottom of my death pile. Almost threw it out.
  
  luckily I came here first.
  - 07/21/2022 at 2:11 pm #97058
    Ryanne
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    Location: Virginia
    @ryanne
    ah so it was a Shoe horn. Weird!
    - 07/21/2022 at 4:51 pm #97066
      debitendcredits
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      Location: Albuquerque, NM
      @debitendcreits
      
      Nope it was a Foam Scraper from Kaier’s Opera House. Used to scraped the foam off the top of your beer. Foam scraper
      - 07/21/2022 at 5:00 pm #97067
        
        Ryanne
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        Location: Virginia
        @ryanne
        
        i was thinking it was a crumber, so i guess that’s close!
- 07/21/2022 at 3:21 pm #97059
  Antique Frog
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  Location: Leicester
  @antique-frog
  The opera house burnt down in 1913, so maybe someone did take it home to use as a shoe horn and that’s how it survived. Great sale!
- 07/25/2022 at 9:03 am #97102
  MyCottage
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  Kaier’s was a brewery, and had beer taps in many bars, so it was sold in places other than the Opera House. It was in business from the 1880s through the mid or late 1960s. The Kaier family mansion still stands and is a Bed and Breakfast these days.
- 07/26/2022 at 12:39 am #97119
  Antique Frog
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  Location: Leicester
  @antique-frog
  According to a letter written by Kaier’s daughter, the opera house was selling around 170 barrels of beer a day to the patrons. Doesn’t say what style of beer; presumably it had a big head on it, like a pint of Guinness.
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