Q: This 2-inch-long silver egg opens in two and has a screen between the two halves. My friends and I have different guesses as to what it could be: A tea ball? A nail file? Can you tell us what it is ...

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These enamelled graters from Staffordshire would have been given as "upmarket" souvenir-style gift in the late 1700s More than 200 nutmeg graters - billed as "the biggest ever collection" of the ...