A young boy was recently rummaging through his grandparents’ belongings after they died, and he shared an unexpected find with a friend.

The two couldn’t figure out what these metal items were until they looked them up online.

The metallic sticks are nutcrackers! This style of nutcracker, most likely from the 1940s or 1950s, was used to extract the actual nut from a shell.

They aid in getting to the edible area of any nut, but are especially useful while eating a chestnut.

Nutcrackers like these were frequently found in sets of seafood equipment that included instruments for breaking shellfish shells as well as picks for extracting the flesh.

A chestnut-shaped wooden dish that matched the nutcrackers was frequently present.

Many of us and our grandparents grew up with comparable tools and the memories that came with them!

Have you ever had nutcrackers or picks like these before? Tell us in the comments about your favorite recollections of them!