bearmom
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posted on October 8, 2001 02:16:54 PM new
This is the 'thing' i found the other day. I'll try to post a picture, if it doesn't work, HELP!!
[img]http://imagehost.auctionwatch.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/bearmom/mvc003s.jpg[url]
[ edited by bearmom on Oct 8, 2001 02:18 PM ]
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toke
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posted on October 8, 2001 02:18:54 PM new
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bearmom
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posted on October 8, 2001 02:19:55 PM new
I tried twice, will someone please correct me? Thanks!
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toke
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posted on October 8, 2001 02:20:32 PM new
Your only screwup was using [url] at the end. Should have been [/img]...
edited to say...I see I donated that screwup to you myself...lol! Sorry about that...
[ edited by toke on Oct 8, 2001 02:32 PM ]
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Zilvy
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posted on October 8, 2001 02:55:32 PM new
It looks like it is cast iron, with stylized chickens on top. Does the cover come off as one piece...are the segment how large are what appear to be segments, how big is it in diameter?
Curiouser and curiouser!!
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bearmom
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posted on October 8, 2001 03:50:15 PM new
Thanks, Toke! it's about 5 inches across. Each of those little segments opens up. You unscrew the peacock in the middle and the lids will open. The bowl of each segment is not much bigger than your thumbnail, which made me think salt cellars, possibly.
But it's not cast iron. Look at the peacock in the center and you can see (not too well) that it is a pale golden color under the tarnish) The legs are tiny elephant heads on one elephant leg....wierd.
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toke
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posted on October 8, 2001 03:52:58 PM new
Is there any kind of burner?
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bearmom
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posted on October 8, 2001 04:18:51 PM new
If there ever was, I don't have it. But being so dark does make me wonder. Maybe it's some kind of incense burner?
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luvmy2bears
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posted on October 8, 2001 04:31:46 PM new
Wow, I've never seen anything like it.
How odd...
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nebula5
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posted on October 8, 2001 04:55:33 PM new
Could it have held kohl or other cosmetics?
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shoshanah
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posted on October 8, 2001 05:07:03 PM new
Sure looks like some Alien weapon... A "stink-ball"-shooting scarrab...
Edited for spelling
How to use UBB Code
Gosh Shosh
Moi
[ edited by shoshanah on Oct 8, 2001 05:08 PM ]
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Meya
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posted on October 8, 2001 05:09:16 PM new
I don't know what it is, but I want it! Please shoot me the auction number at [email protected] when you list it, k? It is cool in the extreme.
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wildanteeker
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posted on October 8, 2001 05:39:21 PM new
just a wild guess but it looks a bit like inkwells.
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stockticker
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posted on October 8, 2001 05:46:22 PM new
"Inkwells" was my immediate thought too when I first saw the image.
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gravid
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posted on October 8, 2001 05:58:09 PM new
It is a antique Hindu pill-a-day dispenser.
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Muriel
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posted on October 8, 2001 06:30:01 PM new
Shosh - you made me shoot Diet Pepsi out my nose!! Do you have any idea what that feels like?? 
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Muriel
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posted on October 8, 2001 06:33:13 PM new
By the way, hubby thinks it's a meatball press. 
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Femme
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posted on October 8, 2001 06:45:06 PM new
The peacock on top looks to be Persian, especially with the bright color underneath.
Other than that...dunno.
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bearmom
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posted on October 8, 2001 08:36:22 PM new
I like gravid's suggestion! I can't put it up for auction until I figure out what to call it. What would be the title for the auction-'Thing-age and purpose unknown'? What category would that go under?
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gravid
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posted on October 8, 2001 11:09:19 PM new
art and antiques/oriental/plumb-ugly
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bearmom
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posted on October 9, 2001 03:57:24 AM new
But gravid, just like the blind date, 'it's got a great personality'! 
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Mylanta
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posted on October 9, 2001 04:03:05 AM new
Speilberg would keep his contact lenses in it.
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gravid
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posted on October 9, 2001 04:37:36 AM new
Wait a minute. I think I saw one of these at the International House of pancakes. They had a different jelly in each compartment.
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bearmom
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posted on October 9, 2001 06:17:42 AM new
We found it at a sale near the U of Texas campus. DH says it's an art class project gone awry.
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gravid
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posted on October 9, 2001 06:26:55 AM new
At auction are you going to mention that one of those dragon heads with the phallic tongue handle thingies is broken off one of the covers?
Or are the crowing roosters with a hole shot through?
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toke
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posted on October 9, 2001 06:40:28 AM new
I don't think the handles are dragons, they look more like peacocks...preening their feathers. This makes me lean toward cosmetics as Nebula5 suggested.
Never seen anything like it, for sure.
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Antelope67
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posted on October 9, 2001 07:27:49 AM new
Maybe you're supposed to set it on one of those old stoves and use it to poach eggs.
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nebula5
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posted on October 9, 2001 08:02:21 AM new
Yes, the more I look at it, I believe it was made to hold kohl powder or similar cosmetics. Do you see any residue or traces of color in the little containers?
The peacocks and paisley shaped containers seem Persian to me, not Indian.
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bearmom
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posted on October 9, 2001 09:59:58 AM new
Nah, gravid. I think I'll just post it like this and hope no one notices. Then I can always treaten them with negative feedback if they complain.
Makeup is possible, but all I see in the little bowls is tarnish. Another thought came to me though, and is similar. It might be where a painter kept the ground colored powders he mixed with linseed oil to make paint? Well, it sounds as plausible as a stink ball shooter
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