Spokesmen for Sodxho Marriott Services, which serves the school, said they will contact the student who discovered the thumb piece.
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Officials determined the thumb piece belonged to a cafeteria worker who had severed the top of her thumb in a vegetable slicer this week.
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"The thumb piece in the shape of a cocoon is definitely a New York characteristic, one you'd never find in Boston or Philadelphia, " said Jeanne Sloane, the head of Christie's silver department.