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<p>[QUOTE="42Skeezix, post: 41799, member: 40"]I think they are both original as in "...these were commonly found in apothecaries from possibly the mid 1800s to the mid-1900s," not a later twentieth century repro.</p><p>Old ones just aren't rare. I've had several, complete with pestle, over the years. Even had an 18th. century glass example once.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tip. Functional mortars have rounded interior bottoms. A shape more conducive to the grinding motions. I think you can see rounded bottoms in both of OPs examples. More modern non functional "decorator" pieces often have bottoms like the inside of a drinking glass, flat with abrupt transitions to the wall of the vessel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="42Skeezix, post: 41799, member: 40"]I think they are both original as in "...these were commonly found in apothecaries from possibly the mid 1800s to the mid-1900s," not a later twentieth century repro. Old ones just aren't rare. I've had several, complete with pestle, over the years. Even had an 18th. century glass example once. Tip. Functional mortars have rounded interior bottoms. A shape more conducive to the grinding motions. I think you can see rounded bottoms in both of OPs examples. More modern non functional "decorator" pieces often have bottoms like the inside of a drinking glass, flat with abrupt transitions to the wall of the vessel.[/QUOTE]
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