What is this? :)

[pyshodoodle]

Yup... cheese strainers look more like strainers. Next guess? Hope someone knows what it is.

 

[TJSJHART]

HAS ANYONE LOOKED UP THE MAKER ,, AS TO WHAT THEY MADE,,JUST AN IDEA.

 

[epackage]

It's Knowles, Taylor & Knowles and it's a butter/cheese dish, most likely had a top. Later ones had a removable piece that had a hole in the center, this made for easy cleaning. Similar to this one...

 

[cowseatmaize]

Butter or Cheese dish, meant for any liquids to run off to the area below...

I'm with that. Butter and cheese fats ran down and collected after.
Is/was there a K.T. & K hotel near you? I think that's what I see.

 

[cowseatmaize]

It's Knowles, Taylor & Knowles and it's a butter/cheese dish,

Oops, sorry Jim.
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I still wonder about the Hotel/Motel mark though. I guess they just had a production line for that?

 

[epackage]

ORIGINAL: cowseatmaize
I still wonder about the Hotel/Motel mark though. I guess they just had a production line for that?

Yes, I imagine they did...

 

[cowseatmaize]

Yup, I was a little hasty with the ? mark, it's all to you. It says that in the link. I wondered about what Hotel may be nearby the dig.
When did the term Motel come out? I thought that was in the 40's or later but it looks more an M than a H.
Like Alice said, ...curiouser and curiouser.[]