You could be forgiven for assuming this jewelry display rack was purpose-built. But look a little closer: It's obviously an antique, and if you look at the channels cut into it, you can see that they antedate the invention of the router. Someone went to a lot of trouble to chisel those out, by hand, with a consistency that practically screams "manufacturing." But what could this thing possibly have been used to make?
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