We were sorting through the house of a deceαsed family friend and found this object. None of us has any idea what it is. Check the first comment for the answer 👇

What looked like a random, obsolete object turned out to be a quiet witness to long voyages and hard lives at sea. It reminded us that even the most ordinary-looking things can carry forgotten worlds inside them. Someone once depended on this small piece of wood or bone; now it sits in our home, a link between their story and ours. We’ll never look at “mysterious junk” in old boxes the same way again.