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@joztamps wrote:

No, I think it's an actual fancy curtain rail, there are pictures of similar in google images, used for alcove type windows, and the ends screw off so they can slot into fancy doodahs at the end, set at right angles to the rail, then they would be screwed back into the doodahs from the other side.

 

Maybe. 

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I'd completely forgotten "doodahs"

could easily be a doohdah!

Hi Kollector,

 

Sorry to be dim, but is there a way to google images / photos? TIA

Yes go to google images then click on the little camera and follow the prompts 

OPs thingy isn't made of wood though

If you say the curtain man has been in the house, why not ring and ask him? Or show it to someone at a different curtain place and ask do they know what it is, if you're worried about him claiming it's his when it isn't.

Good suggestion.

I'm thinking, a tool for threading something through something.

Perhaps load it up with rings having both ends on then when necessary take off one end and feed it through then take the other end off and feed it all the way through leaving the rings behind.

It could even require a wire or string up through the middle at the same time.

I wondered this too. Googled 'threading tools' images but no luck there

Whoa! Sorry photo's so big! i'm new at this