Featured My son-in-law found this under a bush...

...wrapped in a plastic bag along with some old bottles. It was encrusted with hardened earth and lime scale.

I have cleaned it up and hope that something will stir a memory so that I learn how old it might be. Thank you for your help:

 

Id guess 50s-60s Japanese ? I wonder why it ended up under a bush ?

 

Agree with dating, 1950's plus or minus a decade.

 

cuz someone's mom passed and the sons never liked it....

 

I was thinking French barbitone perhaps?

 

It’s Italian, and fifties into sixties, my mama brought home almost identical ones as souvenirs.

 

Thank you. Those were the type of memories I hoped it would stir up. I thought the stems growing over the top were memory joggers.