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Antique Questions Forum / Can someone tell me what this is?

« on: February 16, 2010, 12:09:50 am »

My mother bought this thing at an auction and she has it hanging in her front room, i cant for the life of me figure out what it is, and the auction house had no information either. I was just wondering if anyone had any idea as to what this thing is, its metal, but not sure what kind of metal. It hangs from the cieling yes, its roughly 2 foot long, from top to bottom. The ball on the bottom is hollow, im not sure the ball at the bottom actually belongs there, it looks like it should be up where the rest of the balls are.At the top theres a screw that unscrews and all of the balls come off.The chain is a big loop, you cant really see it in the picture, but its a loop.i got sme more pictures of it now.