Sparrow ...

Beautiful Egg Custard day (my name for the sun) today!
Still not up to going out ... so shot out of the window again.

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Answer to the mystery object .. Egg Iron from my Iron collection .. only ever seen another one in a museum in Derbyshire.

the egg-iron:

"The Egg-Iron is a solid egg-shaped piece of iron fitted on a movable upright stand. It is heated in the usual manner, and is used for ironing the tops of small sleeves or gathered bodices, for which an ordinary iron is not suitable.