Knife Polishers

Over at the Powerhouse Museum [Sydney] blog, they have a Mystery Item. They know what it is (a Knife Polisher), but were having a bit of fun to see if people could guess what it is. Theirs is a bit more upmarket than ours - maybe from a grander home. I have seen one like it in the store at Scienceworks as well.

This is ours:

I'm not sure that ours would have originally been silver, though.

But what we have, which I think is a little more unusual, is that we have the Knife Polish that went into it as well:

You can even see the hole on ours where the polish was popped in. So I wonder if this was used for the old steel knives, or for the plate silver? Anyone know?