Does anyone know what this unusual utensil is?

[SummerLobelia]

In this month's magazine The English Home.

I have tried googling but cannot find it. (The second from left- with the little key like screw).

It looks gloriously useless and I love it!

I figure MNetters easily provide all answers relating to life and the universe. :)

Placemarking because I have no idea and I love a good kitchen gadget.

Yep- bone holder!! That is it. Let me download some pics

It's for holding a meat bone like a chicken leg. Apparently it called a "wild meat clamp".

Is it for holding a bone on a joint of meat for carving? Like lamb shank.

It is an antique bone clamp for roast lamb.

www.1stdibs.com/furniture/dining-entertaining/sheffield-silverplate/beaux-arts-french-silver-manche-gigot-dagneau-carving-fork-bone-clamp-s-2/id-f_4614763/

Oh the caption did not save - but yes french lamb bone holder.

@Amipreg1 wins! Thanks!

Yes I could do with that in my life.

(And I love the idea of intimidating the odd guest as well to boot. )

Sorry- by the time I had googled and posted others had also posted with the answer! Thank you all. :)

That is a pretty nice piece of kit. And going by the fact I have never used my icecream maker probably more useful to me than certain other gadgets I do own.

Rubbish. It's clearly a dinglehopper. Obvs 😂

and have finally identified what is causing my ongoing life dissatisfaction. Ordered. Thanks OP.

(but still need further information on far left)

It looks like it should be in the bedroom frankly. If you're into a bit of BDSM that is

That's what I was going to suggest.

Great minds!

I think the 1st item may be a gravy ladle rather than a consommé one?

The one on the left is a gravy spoon.

I know I should know what the inert fork and spoon on the right are. It's not caviar, but it's something like that which would react with silver and taint.

gravy ladle! Of course!

I am being unneccessarily thrown by the placement of said items on the page and am automatically going from the outside in and trying to marry them up to courses.

When I was little we always used bone/horn spoons to eat eggs but we didn't have matching forks.

Dinglehopper it is then.

Henceforth. 😂

Love it. :)

Turns out ebay is awash with the things (Including a robust and impressive Cristofle one).

I am not sure I can resist.....

DH opines that the bone inert cutlery might be used for very acid foods. So maybe a fruit salad?

You're on the right lines.

But it's actually a tool to remove a cock lodger from the house. It's attached while they sleep and then used to drag them outside in the morning.

(Incidentally I also googled porridge spurtle and now I have another thing I covet greatly).

Which one, the sideways spoon or the weird thing next to it?

The bone holder thing is the wierd thing with the screw. The sideways spoon is it seems a gravy ladle.

TBH i am now discovering a never-before-expected obsession with odd and vintage cutlery. (DH has 4 complete sets of silver-plate canteens but nothing nearly as interesting as this)

I've been attempting to minimise kitchen utensils, but I must say I could give space to one of these 🤔

Does it help your dingles to hop or stop your dingles from hopping?