OK, I'll bite. Looks to me like it could be an old cookie press. 
Under the first disk with holes you can see the next one will holes 
placed differently. Could be a set of different patterns.

Debbie

At 10:58 AM 11/16/2007 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Just my four penn'orth!    It looks to me as if it is the parts from 
>the inside of an old sewing box - thread reels and pin/needle 
>holders, and suchlike.     My mother and my sister have items just 
>like that in their antique sewing boxes.
>
>Carol - in Suffolk UK
>
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>>Does the smaller top part, looks like it has a knob at the top, 
>>unscrew? Does the bone/ivory part come out of the wooden casing 
>>completely?  It looks like it should come out of it's casing.
>>
>>Is so then cold it be some kind of sewing kit, holding sewing 
>>needles/reel of thread or something like that?  An Etui I think is 
>>the spelling.
>>
>>Regards
>>Jenny DeAngelis
>>Spain.
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