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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 100581, member: 360&quot;]<b>Thanks for the answers, everyone!! </b></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always wanted a brass mortar &amp; pestle. When I saw this, I had to have it. </p><p><br /></p><p>My own gut-feeling is that it is most likely an antique. </p><p><br /></p><p>If it was new (and I have no doubt that you could easily buy a new one), then it&#039;d either look prematurely aged, or it&#039;d look bloody perfect, or it&#039;d have all these marks and dates and numbers on it, which this obviously doesn&#039;t. </p><p><br /></p><p>As <b>AF</b> says, M&amp;Ps were used by everyone back in the day. Whether they looked perfect or not was probably the last thing anybody cared about, so long as you could beat the hell out of it, and it wouldn&#039;t crack. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is before food-processors and stuff. If you were a pharmacist or an apothecary, a cook, a housewife...anybody who did anything with herbs, spices and whatnot...you likely had one sitting around. And since they&#039;re DESIGNED to be bashed up, I don&#039;t think people cared about the pitting. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also agree with AF about this not being that valuable. I mean if it was a dated one from a famous foundry or something, then perhaps it might be, but a bog-standard brass/bronze M&amp;P must&#039;ve been something VERY common back then. I paid a bit more than I would&#039;ve liked, but it was still very cheap. MUCH cheaper than I thought it was gonna be. So I&#039;m happy. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ideally I would&#039;ve liked a mortar with a handle, but hey, we take what we can get. </p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I like the pitting. It gives it an aged look, but it also dissuades me from polishing it, which I think would be a horrible thing to do to this, anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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