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Message:: [QUOTE="EC33, post: 218493, member: 4165"]Hi All - Thanks a lot for your initial thoughts. Several days of googling have turned up nothing... (but I have yet to contact the mudlarks...) I do have a couple of up-dates on the item for anyone who's interested:Please see the new photo: Item is cleaned up a little, but it is very hard to get a clear picture of the tiny details.The blue piece dislodged from the back during (gentle) cleaning, and the missing broken shards were found inside the central chamber... This turns out to be blue glass and not enamel (I think). The inscription on it is very hard to make out, and even looks like it could be a mirror image... (see the second picture, which is a drawing of what I think could possibly be on the blue glass...) - there is almost certainly a square and compass straddling two lines of characters... It could say 43 MINT or 43 WYHT or it could be _EEP __THYN in reverse - I just can't tell.The object is probably copper and glass... it is not magnetic.Each of the six little 'arms' has a hole going right through into the central chamber... These look threaded at first glance, but I am now not convinced they are threaded.Still very much stumped!Any ideas?? [ATTACH=full]64625[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]64626[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]