I hope you'll all forgive me if I argue with myself here!  I just looked at the 
item again, and the seller calles it a "Oeil Magique".  DUH!!  That tells me 
that in all probability, there *IS* an eye there, and this is what we call a 
"Lazy Susan".

Clay

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Clay Blackwell 
Lynchburg, VA USA 


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> > Hi Laurie, 
> > This looks like a vice to hold the pins/needles below it. 
> 
> 
> Possibly a seriously mishandled pricker! Where all the pricking needles have 
> got badly bent! Grin! 
> 
> More sensibly - I think Clay is right 
> < I agree, it's for sewings. With an eye, it's a Lazy Susan, without an 
> eye, it's a needlepin. I'm betting there are no eyes on these. The purists 
> try to teach us to do the sewings with a needlepin, not with the more modern 
> Lazy Susan.> 
> 
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