Anyone know what this wooden Gizmo might be?

For $1, too cool and too cheap to pass up at a garage sale. The seller had no idea and neither do I.

Best guesses so far are some kind of a toy or a part of a fabric thread spinner thing.

My first thought was baby rattle.

Oh boy... here we go again!  

In reply to SV reX :

And those were never identified. This is a Mexican hot chocolate frother. I'm 100% serious. 
 

https://bucksspices.com/products/vintage-molinillo-mexican-hot-chocolate-cocoa-whisk-frother

Definitely something used by a witch doctor.

Edit:  Ah, heck!  Mr. Jones is clearly correct.

It's a Molinillo.

A traditional Mexican whisk for drinks such as hot chocolate.

They drink enough hot chocolate in Mexico to have made more than one of these?

In reply to Steve_Jones :

Damn...We barely got started and out came the answer. Who needs chat GPT when this crew is around.

Pete

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

They drink enough hot chocolate in Mexico to have made more than one of these?

Chocolate (Xocolatl) is from what is now Mexico, before Spain went all conquistadorey, and it was originally consumed as a hot foamy beverage.

There are a lot of interesting parallels between coffee and chocolate.  Imagine if we made coffee bars!

In reply to NOHOME :

Ask chat GPT what those pointy things are, I'd still like to know. 

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I now want a coffee bar really badly.

In reply to Jesse Ransom :

Chocolate covered coffee beans.  Try them, they are like crack

I buy dark chocolate bars with expresso nibs in them. 

Want me to mail you a few?  Canadians have better snack foods, I think.

Steve_Jones said:

In reply to NOHOME :

Ask chat GPT what those pointy things are, I'd still like to know. 

Chat GPT can't deal with images... so far at least

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

I paid $15 for two 10 packs of those in mini form from Amazon last summer. They're over $20 now and I'm still thinking about it.

Those are one of the best exports from the great white north. Found them on a fishing trip when I was a teenager and everyone thinks I'm crazy when I describe them. 

In reply to CJ :

Some chat bots can draw coloring book page outlines for you if you ask them. I didn't know this, and a friend with a younger kid told me about it. I posted it in the TIL topic.

And I'm *STILL* irritated we haven't been able to figure out what those other things were. I think it remains our only failure.

Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:

And I'm *STILL* irritated we haven't been able to figure out what those other things were. I think it remains our only failure.

Ok.  This got me thinking about that.  Could those items possibly be a fid or a marlin spike?  A fid, or a marlin spike is a tool used for rope work or splicing in the nautical world.  I can't remember where the original post is located.  But this reminds me of that.

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I used to give those to my niece and nephew when they were little kids. Turn them into hummingbirds and leave! 

There is one last mystery on the Molinillo that I posted: I can not find any what show the little cup-like gizmo on the end. My guess is that it is some form of measuring cup. 

Dirtydog (Forum Supporter) said:

Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:

And I'm *STILL* irritated we haven't been able to figure out what those other things were. I think it remains our only failure.

Ok.  This got me thinking about that.  Could those items possibly be a fid or a marlin spike?  A fid, or a marlin spike is a tool used for rope work or splicing in the nautical world.  I can't remember where the original post is located.  But this reminds me of that.

We still don't know. Just for giggles I bumped the original thread to the top!

In reply to Dirtydog (Forum Supporter) :

That was a guess in the original thread