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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Can anyone please tell me what this is?

« on: January 08, 2011, 09:29:34 am »

Hi everyone, thanks so much for your help so far. It looks as if something is missing from the lid because of the two individual pin type attachments. It doesn't have any holes in it, or it doesn't have any type of smell to it other that a metallic type smell.. What I think is intriguing is the etching in the brass and the contruction looks hand tooled. The connectors for the chains look like cotter pin style to attach the chains and they used the same type connector to perform as a latch to secure the lid on the front. I included some more photo's, maybe they will help.    

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Antique Questions Forum / Can anyone please tell me what this is?

« on: January 07, 2011, 09:40:44 pm »

Hi everyone. My name is Terry and I need some help. I have this container I acquired made of brass but I can't find anything that might explain what it is. It's 7 inches in diameter and about 3 1/4 inches tall. It doesn't have any stamp on the bottom, but it has very small pin type pricks that might read india on the very outer edge of the bottom. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you