What's this?

[Manfred Belheim]

Found at the office. No-one can work out what it is. It's about 2 inches in diameter, with two halves that screw together. The top half is white and the bottom half is light grey. The top half has the depression you can see which has a small hole in the bottom of it, but once the top screws onto the base this hole is hidden in the screw thread so doesn't actually let you access the interior of the "device" through it. There's no writing anywhere on it to google (Aside from ">ABS< 2" in a couple of places which is presumably just the type of plastic). Google image search also hasn't turned up anything.

The best guess so far is that it's a pen or pencil holder, but it just doesn't work very well as one as the hole is too wide and the whole thing is too light so just gets flipped by the weight of the pen. Unless you unscrew it and fill it with ballast, but that seems a but convoluted.

It also contains a small plastic bag with 3 small plastic rods in it. These are each about an inch long and an 8th of an inch in diameter. They seem to be just about the right size to fit through the small hole in the top part, but to no apparent purpose. They may not be to do with the thing at all, it might just be a coincidence that they were in there.

What the hell is it?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I could guess...pill container...but I'm hoping someone who actually recognizes the thing will come along.

 

[Phrossack]

A mysterious artifact dating back at least to the Obama Period (2008-2016). Plastic. Of unknown origin. Likely ceremonial in purpose.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Next guess, a fake urinal cake. What purpose that would serve being the next question.

 

[Senethro]

Something is designed to sit across that indentation. Part of a disassembled desk?

 

[tetley]

Looks to me like a knob. You would fasten it to something and fit the wing nut inside the empty space.

 

[Borachio]

It's a suppository.

Don't believe me? Give it a try then. You'll see.

 

[JohnRM]

Looks like an Yo-yo casing.

 

[bhsup]

I could guess...pill container...but I'm hoping someone who actually recognizes the thing will come along.

That's immediately what I thought as well.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Hmm. 2 votes for pill container. So what are the ridge on the top, and the conical depression with the small hole in, all about then?

I won't rest easy until this case is solved :/

 

[bhsup]

Th ridge at the top would make it simple as pie to use a penny to twist it open if, for example, someone with arthritis was struggling to get it open to take a pain pill. Conical depression I really don't know, though I suppose it could be used to put a string through it so it wouldn't get lost?

 

[Manfred Belheim]

It's about two inches across so that ridge is waaay too big to slot a penny in. It's actually about the right size to lay a pen across.

The hole in the conical bit... you could put a string through it if you were carrying only the top section, but as soon as it screws into the base then the hole doesn't even go anywhere. There's no hole in the base and you can see the thread in the centre of the base that the top screws into, so the hole doesn't even allow you access to the majority of the interior, only the small part within the thread.

 

[bhsup]

From the second image, it looks as though the hole would still exist even after both pieces were snapped together. Also it is larger than I thought if that slot would fit a pen.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Looks to me like a knob. You would fasten it to something and fit the wing nut inside the empty space.

I retract both my guesses. There is likely a missing piece, contrasting color, that press fits into the slot and hole, covering the hardware and giving the knob a 'striped' appearance and smooth face.

 

[sophie]

Could be a disposable air freshener?

 

[Gori the Grey]

It's a puzzle.

 

[Joecoolyo]

A mysterious artifact dating back at least to the Obama Period (2008-2016). Plastic. Of unknown origin. Likely ceremonial in purpose.

 

[Colonel]

Old style Juicer thing for fruits, turn your oranges into wonderful orange juice after you squeeze out 15 of them.

 

[Borachio]

Maybe it's a container for tweaked-out nose hairs? You wouldn't like to lose any of those little fellas, would you?

 

[timtofly]

Could be a disposable air freshener?

This would be my guess. When new, twist it slightly open, and the wax inside gradually dissipitates.