What is this a picture of? Please be more specific than "a tool with a knife at one end and brush on the other."

Answer to last week: One of my mom's guesses was right: it is a tool for putting out candles, as Leo is so marvelously demonstrating. It is called a ljussläckare, which translates as "candle extinguisher."

Yea for me! I finally got one right. Going for two here....I think this is for mushroom preparation-trimming and cleaning.
Posted by: moo at oktober 3, 2007 09:11 FMI think it's for shaving-- a brush for lathering the shaving cream on one end, and the razor on the other end.
Posted by: Casey at oktober 3, 2007 09:32 FMCasey, I swear I always have the same exact thought as you! So I'll say it's for fossil prep.
Posted by: Denise at oktober 3, 2007 10:03 FMI agree with Moo. Mushroom hunting brush/knife.
PS. Matt swears that some of your mushroom photos are of of pyschedelic mushrooms. Settle a bet between us.
Posted by: Veronica Lisa Stark at oktober 3, 2007 07:43 EMI think this is a hoof-pick hoof brush combo to use on the large Swedish horses that are ridden to the mushroom picking forest.
Posted by: The other Allison at oktober 6, 2007 11:37 EM