Possible Clues:

• Gee, there's little fat on it!
• This once was far from valuable with it
• Object for beginners to take home in new gear
• Spare a note, but object
• Object to its being so skinny to start with
• Item acquired from gunsmith in Greece
• Object to it being spare to start with
• An obsession with the spare key
• It would have been far from being valuable
• Object to squeal from Ross?