vintage mechanical spring-loaded grabber

This object is a vintage mechanical spring-loaded grabber, most commonly used as sugar cube tongs or an olive/pickle/ice grabber.Tool Details & MechanicsFunction: When you depress the top button with your thumb while holding the wider finger disc, the claw-style prongs at the bottom extend and open up. Releasing the button triggers the internal spring to retract and tightly clamp onto a sugar cube or olive.Origin: This specific sleek design is almost always associated with mid-century Scandinavian silverplate barware, and many examples are explicitly marked "Made in Sweden" or "Triplex-Junior"