What has four holes, is shaped like a bowl and is dated 1812?

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• coinsarefun Posts: 21,761 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 15, 2011 6:14PM

  Its a finger bowl

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• Dentuck Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭

  May 15, 2011 9:35PM

  A hanging incense burner?
  
  
  

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• kaz Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 15, 2011 9:58PM

  helmet used by Gerbil air raid warden.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 15, 2011 10:41PM

  A hanging planter for a pygmy orchid??? That would work.... Cheers, RickO

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• Klif50 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭✭

  May 15, 2011 10:52PM

  
  

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• Justacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 15, 2011 10:56PM

  My great, great, great ,great, great, great Aunt Loosely Goosey McGurt. She was injured in the war. It explains a lot. She had a weight problem as well. Hereditary on my Mom's side. MJ

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• HoledandCreative Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 16, 2011 3:50AM

  I came in second. I thought a pretty unusual item, whatever it was intended to be.

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• johnny9434 Posts: 29,420 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 16, 2011 3:57AM

  could be almost an ashtray. owner didnt make it that far to use it

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• jdillane Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭

  May 16, 2011 5:18AM

  I came in third. Would have been happy to own her as a curiousity. 50c was a lot of money back in the day. A button? I think not.

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• EagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 16, 2011 6:44AM

  My guess is a cup for a scale. The weight was adjusted with the copper piece on the bottom.

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• GoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭

  May 16, 2011 7:18AM

  
  
  << <i>My guess is a cup for a scale. The weight was adjusted with the copper piece on the bottom. >>
  
  
  
  That was my guess too.

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• leothelyon Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 17, 2011 2:22AM

  Amazing! How was it done without scratching up the obverse? Half dollar size button?
  
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  Other than finding a string of these on a bracelet, I have no idea what they were used for.
  
  
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• leothelyon Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 17, 2011 2:32AM

  Little bells......like wind chimes!
  
  
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