When I was a child and until recently I had a metal holder that had a
bottom space for paper towels, one for waxed paper and a third for
saran wrap or whatever.  It had serrated edges on all three
compartments, hung on the wall and was made of chrome/shiny metal.  I
can't find one anywhere.  Can you help?

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Request for Question Clarification by knowledge_seeker-ga on 18 Jun 2002 17:34 PDT

I know just what you're looking for, but so far no luck. I've found
similar products in plastic and (maybe)oak. Interested?

--K~

Hello!

I think I've found what you're looking for, take a look on this pages:

http://www.cabinetstorage.com/iawstorage.htm

http://www.luckywonders.com/scMK20RG.htm

This is a model without the sharp edges:
http://www.tescoma.cz/en/poloz.php?skupina=15&skupina2=5&polozka=900056

http://www.propertyzoom.com/pz/retailer/search/productInfoR.asp?pid=102&supid=32&fontface=Arial,%20Helvetica,%20sans-serif&color1=003399&color2=CEE5FF&color3=97C5FA&link=666666&visited=666666&hover=000000&active=666666&titlecolor=FFFFFF&textcolor=000000&bgcolor=FFFFFF


Google Images was the best tool I found to search this.

Search strategy (on Google Images)

paper 
towel  
kitchen


Good luck!

Here, I'll just give you what I found: 

Plastic
http://www.mb-plastics.com/new9.htm
http://www.cosway.com.my/promotion/redemption/redemption_two/kitchenware/kw_04.htm
http://cheungkongmetal.com/818.htm

A nicer plastic box-type
http://www.cabinetstorage.com/iawstorage.htm


Oak
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:B3CjQEOUpqgC:www.oaktowncatalog.com/oaktowncatalog/3rolkitdis.html+%22kitchen+dispenser+%22&hl=en

(This is a cached site, so they may not offer this product any
longer.)

Good Luck -K~

When in doubt...hit up eBay. 

I found a really nice chrome one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2114102886

and if you want to browse there are many, many more:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&ebaytag1code=0&query=vintage+paper+towel+holder

The search terms I used were:
vintage+paper+towel+holder

Happy shopping. :)

From personal knowledge, I can tell you that those handy razor-blade
like edges they used to have on commercial saran-wrap boxes and
devices like you used to own are now considered too dangerous for
consumer products. I've seen some wacky things lately being marketed
to replace the cutting surface, but a good long strip of 1/8" metal
spikes was always the best, in my opinion. :)

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