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Not much, but a delicate 3x4cm cameo

 

Found yesterday

Miniature hand made spinning wheel and interesting Chinese teapot that is filled from the bottom ... at 7½", it is just slightly smaller than the one outside of the YaoZhou kilns museum (which is shown in last photo)

 

Or wounds all heels.

 

found a home for it

 

@quirkygirl that is a cool looking teapot! Is it meant to be used? What does the stopper look like?

 

That's a good question and I was wondering about it myself (whether it was made to be used) But, the original in the museum was from the Song Dynasty (960 - 1127) ... and I don't think they would make a non-functional teapot back then - but what do I know?

No stopper - the flower-shaped hole is the lower end of a ceramic tube that rises up nearly to the top of the pot ... I think you hold it upside-down to fill it and when set upright, the water is trapped inside. I haven't tried it out ... I have visions of scalding my hand with boiling water! (needless to say, if and when I do try it out, the trial runs will be with room temperature water) I can't even imagine how they would get tea leaves in (or out of) it!

I'm not finding a lot of info about it online, unfortunately.

 

i know this isn't coin talk but check out this quarter i found a long time ago, lost for a little while (thought son spent it ),and just found again at the bottom of the pile of coins i was looking at , it is 1943 and is badly struck and cut from the end of a dented plate (slab)

 

I'll give ya a dollar for it right now!!!!!! PayPal!! I'll pay shipping!

 

You may have something quite good there.
I do wonder though since it has so much wear. Odd no one snagged it early on if was truly a bad stamping.

 

i have had it for 25/30 years , from my picking days 1990's

 

there isn't as much wear as you see , look at the wear ,it is inconsistent and the d in dollar is broken you can just see the hair line at the top of the left side .looks like a backwards G

 

you're going to have to come up some Gila hehehe

 

Still 50 years of wear.

 

i have been going through my U S coins looking for that 1970 struck on a Canadian coin plate

 

43, right in the war years....if that coin could talk...

 

yup it's the coins ll's that make me think bad strike they are thick at both end and lowered into the middle were wear can't get too makes me think how did that happen

yes it does it is old lol but still has plenty of luster but is hard to photograph it

 

I think it has much wear. For example. Look at LIBERTY, AMERICA, DOLLAR and the rim.

 

could be just gouged i'm no expert lol

 

looking at a good one on ebay will compare

 

i will have to take it in to a coin shop idk .
in my opin. the wear isn't consistent with the ones on ebay either , sort of but... lol (under microscopic lens)