Posted by Maureen on Saturday, 19 March 2005, at 2:07 p.m.:
In Reply to: Part Identification posted by Greg Ruhland on Saturday, 19 March 2005, at 11:07 a.m.:
I could be wrong about this, but it looks very much like the string holder that they used to use wherever packages needed to be tied.
I remember seeing something like this in a butcher shop -- the butcher would wrap the meat in butcher paper and tie it up with string.