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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 372647, member: 5833&quot;]I get a similar issue with cameos a lot: is that some kind of signature or just random scratches on the back?&nbsp; The TF looks like stray paint to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think there can be no doubt the hat was for holding matches, but what in the world went on the other side?&nbsp; Your experiment with the straws is instructive.&nbsp; If the objects that went into the holes were all the same length &amp; all had diameters small enough for them to slip all the way down to the bottom, the ones inserted in the bottom tier would have been held less securely &amp; would have been taller than those behind, not the way things in racks are usually arranged.&nbsp; Makes me think that whatever went in there was big enough around to snug into the holes, roughly all to the same depth &amp; not all the way through.</p><p><br /></p><p>So at this point I&#039;ll ask again:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Also, if the items couldn&#039;t wobble in the holes, would they have been held straight up or at a bit of an angle?</p><p><br /></p><p>My other thought is that it was never meant when on display to be seen from both sides, that it sat with the unfinished back to a wall, with the whatevers fairly hidden.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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