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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 223396, member: 54"]I think it could be an 18th C. Measuring cup, or one made more recently in an unindustrialized country. The disc and fractional disc are what says "measure" to me. Those discs are probably symbols for numbers and fractions, and look like the pictorial equivalent of "1 2/3 cups" or something similar. Don't clean it! The patina is wonderful. The cup or bucket looks like it was in daily use, handled many times a day, for at least 100 years. The V&A museum in London has a large metalwares collection and may be able to help ID it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 223396, member: 54"]I think it could be an 18th C. Measuring cup, or one made more recently in an unindustrialized country. The disc and fractional disc are what says "measure" to me. Those discs are probably symbols for numbers and fractions, and look like the pictorial equivalent of "1 2/3 cups" or something similar. Don't clean it! The patina is wonderful. The cup or bucket looks like it was in daily use, handled many times a day, for at least 100 years. The V&A museum in London has a large metalwares collection and may be able to help ID it.[/QUOTE]
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