These Are Not Lipstick Tubes...



The objects above are remarkably ornate baby rattles/ teething toys, as crafted by a master silversmith.  They are attributed to Nicholas Roosevelt, an 18th-century American craftsman, and are now part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This rare and precious gold toy, with its elaborate chased and repoussé ornament, might have been given as a lavish christening gift. It consists of a whistle, a piece of teething coral, six of the original eight bells, and a loop to hang a toy on a ribbon around the child's neck. Aside from being a teething device, the coral in the whistle and bells was thought to ward off enchantment and disease.

One can't help but wonder if creations such as this had some influence on the development of the idiom "bells and whistles" to describe supplementary showy functions.

Link, via Titam et le Sirop d'Érable.

the least obscene answer I can come up with it that the pink bits are penis bones, possibly from a lemur or monkey.

Although I refuse to speculate what purpose they might serve on grounds of decency
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These are 19th century baby teethers AKA pacifiers, the bells and whistles are the other entertainment options. The coral was to ward off sickness, probably gong back to early cultural superstitions that coral was good to avert the "evil eye".
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I think that I recognise them, but depending on how big they are and whether the red thing stuck in the bottom of each of them is permanent, they could maybe either be Torah finials or yads.
Torah finials are the decorative trim put on the ends of the stick the vellum (they aren't written on paper) is wrapped around.
Yads are pointers (if the red bits are permanent) that are used when reading from the Torah, to prevent damaging the page with your fingertip and they look weird so that it doesn't appear to be an idol that'st is being worshiped when reading from the Torah.
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Howard's close. They're spouts for a table fountain, which would pump wine through a decorative fixture in Medieval France. (http://cma.org/explore/work.asp?searchText=1924.859&display=&tab=2&recNo=0)
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They are "Yad" which literally means Hand.

These are Jewish ritual pointers, used to point to the text during the Torah reading from the parchment Torah scrolls.

Shalom!
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The stones looks like carnelian to me, which means that they might be used by an alternative healing practitioner to balance the chakras, possibly by waving them over the patient, or swinging back and forth as pendulums.
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Well the bit at the bottom looks like the charms people used to use to ward off the evil eye, the bells could be for that too, so I'm gonna say it's some sort of good luck charm or something to ward off evil.
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i was going to say that they were cornicelli, which are little Italian charms to ward off the evil eye, but then somebody pointed out the whistle on the end and I gave it a second thought...
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Yep, they're Victorian baby rattle/teether combos!--the Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood website has an interesting description: http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/collections/childcare/rattle/index.html
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Jmo was the first of several to identify the correct category for the objects. bees and iSAWiWASi found related links, and Dr. Rock has just tracked down the source of the photo.

I'll go ahead and revise the post tonight.
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