19th-century born American businessman Charles Forster is credited for mass-producing toothpicks after noticing the locals’ great teeth on a trip to Brazil (they credited toothpicks for their sparkling smiles). Glass toothpick holders became a standard as soon as disposable wooden and quill toothpicks turned into objects of common use. Before that time, toothpicks were often made of gold, silver, or ivory. This Hungarian toothpick holder seems to lie in between the private and the public dimension of toothpick’s history.