Continental Airlines Vintage Gold Carpet Service Plastic Swizzle Stick

Description

This comes from a friend of mine who is a retired Continental Airlines pilot. I believe he retired in the late 1990s/early 2000s, but it could have been earlier than that.
I'm not sure if this is a swizzle stick or appetizer picker or something they stuck in food to decorate it, but it appears to date to the 1950s--not really sure, that's just my best guess. It measures 4" long and 7/8" wide at the top. I doubt my friend did anything with it except keep it. It's very clean.
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