A small, polished golden-brown object sat in someone’s hand with no obvious purpose — no label, no instructions, no obvious mechanism. Online searches and a friend who collects antiques offered no answer. It took a retired elementary school teacher to crack the case.
An object with no name: paperweight, knob, or game piece?
The object was compact, smooth, and easy to hold — but its purpose was impossible to pin down. The narrator turned it over several times, weighing possibilities: an old paperweight, a drawer pull, a missing furniture knob, maybe even a piece from a forgotten board game.
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