Every family has secrets hidden in old closets, forgotten boxes, and dusty drawers.
Some are old photographs with unfamiliar faces.
Others are handwritten letters tied with faded ribbon.
But every now and then, you discover an object so unusual that the question immediately arises:
What is this?
That’s exactly what happened when I helped clean my grandmother’s house after she moved into a retirement home.
Beneath the neatly folded tablecloths, in an old wooden chest of drawers, was a small metal object I’d never seen before.
At first glance, it
