Hooray! It's time for our weekly collaboration with the What Is It? Blog. Can you guess the purpose of this week's object?
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Update 12/5/09 - the answer is:A Mongolian Flint Fire Striker, it's made from very high carbon tool steel, and throws a good hot spark. There is a compartment inside for holding flint or tinder. Congratulations to Bruno Cabral who got it right first and to Muppetmaker for the funny but wrong guess of Wizard of Oz scarecrow's man purse.
Why would a knife have flowers on it?
now with fashionable faux flowers.
I think it's made for scraping fat and tissue from pelts and hides.
Mine came from Mongolia, a souvenir my wife brought back from a trip to China.
I was told it was Hillary Clinton's personal shaver to get at and trim the dense undergrowth that Bill found so unappetizing.
Was a gift from some Russian porn site.
Possibly a flint and steel set. Flint and tinder go in the pouch. To start a fire place tinder on wood. strike flint along the curved edge of the iron piece. This will create the soarks to start a fire.