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<p>[QUOTE="squarecoats, post: 4431670, member: 64805"]Hi everyone, I'm grouping these three sets in one post to hopefully not take up too much space on the forum but each set is unrelated to the others.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a pair of what I think are Chinese stamps, possibly for sort of signing letters and the like so I didn't include photos of the stamp end just in case whoever they originally belonged to might appreciate the privacy (or something like that anyway). They are both small and heavy for their size. One looks like maybe copper on the outside. One has an engraving on the side but not the other. They both have little cases with what I am guessing is space to put an ink block or something. Can anyone speculate anything about them to me like age, materials, anything that seems interesting about them, etc.? Or is there anything anyone recognizes about them?</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there's three objects I think are like a fang, molar tooth or something?, and maybe a horn? No idea if from the same animal or multiple species or what. I think they would be to basically put on a keychain or something similar but I have no idea really. Any thoughts?</p><p><br /></p><p>Last are two primarily wooden objects and I have no idea what they could be. One has extensive metal inlay and then atop a post standing on one of its surfaces there's like a sphere in multiple pieces, I think maybe broken but held sort of rigid in place, and out the other end there's a nail-like object that if you press it into the wooden thing it relieves the rigidity of the sphere pieces but they don't fall out. This might be a daft description to someone who knows what this is. The other wooden thing is much more plain. I don't know what relation they might have to each other but I found them together.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you so much for your thoughts and time![ATTACH=full]379606[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379607[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379608[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379606[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379607[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379608[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379609[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379610[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379611[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379612[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379613[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379614[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="squarecoats, post: 4431670, member: 64805"]Hi everyone, I'm grouping these three sets in one post to hopefully not take up too much space on the forum but each set is unrelated to the others. I have a pair of what I think are Chinese stamps, possibly for sort of signing letters and the like so I didn't include photos of the stamp end just in case whoever they originally belonged to might appreciate the privacy (or something like that anyway). They are both small and heavy for their size. One looks like maybe copper on the outside. One has an engraving on the side but not the other. They both have little cases with what I am guessing is space to put an ink block or something. Can anyone speculate anything about them to me like age, materials, anything that seems interesting about them, etc.? Or is there anything anyone recognizes about them? Then there's three objects I think are like a fang, molar tooth or something?, and maybe a horn? No idea if from the same animal or multiple species or what. I think they would be to basically put on a keychain or something similar but I have no idea really. Any thoughts? Last are two primarily wooden objects and I have no idea what they could be. One has extensive metal inlay and then atop a post standing on one of its surfaces there's like a sphere in multiple pieces, I think maybe broken but held sort of rigid in place, and out the other end there's a nail-like object that if you press it into the wooden thing it relieves the rigidity of the sphere pieces but they don't fall out. This might be a daft description to someone who knows what this is. The other wooden thing is much more plain. I don't know what relation they might have to each other but I found them together. Thank you so much for your thoughts and time![ATTACH=full]379606[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379607[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379608[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379606[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379607[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379608[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379609[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379610[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379611[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379612[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379613[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]379614[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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