Osterknapp is a button, but not how we think of a button. It is a cheese button. In Norway, cheeses are wrapped in a lovely decorative cloth and pinned with a long semi-sharp post with this cheese button. Cheese identification cards could be pinned to the cheese here in the US where we don’t us the cloths. Perfect gift for the cheese lover. There are so many cool things that could be done with this “button”. It could be used as a decorative knob on furniture or to hang jewery. In Norwegian, Osterknapp means cheese button. Perhaps when ordering in Norwegian, it helps to translate the description. These are so beautiful that we decided to keep them.