Recently, a young man was going through his grandparents’ old things after they passed and showed a friend of his an interesting find.
The young man and his friend could not tell what these metal objects could possibly be until they found some information in the Internet.
In fact, the metal sticks are nutcrackers! Likely from the 1940’s or 1950’s, this type of nutcracker would be used to dig the actual nut out of a shell.
Nutcrackers help to get to the edible portion of any nut, but are especially common to help one properly eat a chestnut.
These nutcrackers were often in similar sets of seafood tools that included implements for cracking the shells of shellfish in addition to picks for pulling out the meat.
Additionally, the nutcrackers could often been found with a matching wooden bowl designed to look like a chestnut.
Many of us and our grandparents had similar tools at home, along with the fond memories that go with them!
