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kidden6968

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Trinket dish so tiny?
« on: September 22, 2012, 12:21:13 pm »
This is a really nice and yet very small porcelain covered dish of some sort.  I can't imagine what would fit in there as it is only 1" tall, 2 1/2" diameter and with the lid off only about 1/4" deep.

It reminds me of Japanese art but yet there are no marks.

Would anyone know what this might be or where it might be from?

I don't believe it has any age.

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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2012, 01:07:17 pm »
looks like one intended for rings !! like when washing dishes you take rings off !!

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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2012, 01:59:15 pm »
Thanks Mart and I assumed it was for jewelry but it is so darn tiny  LOL

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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2012, 02:37:00 pm »
Wait a minute,, you said 1/4 inch deep ??

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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2012, 02:38:08 pm »
Yes when you take the lid off - the actually depth of the little box part is only 1/4"

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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2012, 05:54:27 pm »
Ok sorry just wanted to go back to this one for a minute - so if it is only 1/4" deep with the lid off do you think this would still be a trinket box or ring box?

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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2012, 06:00:45 pm »
Called either!
I'm from the South - but please don't mistake my Southern Manners/Accent/Charm as a weakness!

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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2012, 06:01:36 pm »
pill box perhaps....and before any smart alec says,no not the sodjee kind.... ;D
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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2012, 06:02:32 pm »
what's a sodjee?  I have also gotten better at understanding but not this  LOL

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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2012, 06:08:37 pm »
what's a sodjee?  I have also gotten better at understanding but not this  LOL
;D ;D ;D..I knew that would get you..the clue is at the beginning....pillbo x....army...soldier ....sodjee.....its Scots slang....just like coobags & ingins.= cowboys & indians... ;D
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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2012, 08:42:10 pm »
"pillbo x....army...soldier ....sodjee....."

I don't like bringing up the "E" word with a Scotsman, but I had a good friend - English -  from London who explained English slang the same way. You start with one word, then by a weird chain of associated words and mutations it ends up as something completely different, yet maintaining a form of the original meaning.

It seems so ideosyncratic that it amazes me that two people can understand it, much less a whole country!

Not criticising, just sayin'!  Words are wonderful things.
« Last Edit: September 29, 2012, 06:41:04 am by ghopper1924 »
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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2012, 03:25:22 am »
One time when i was on holiday in Germany...i got mistaken for a German trying to speak English....work that one out.... :D
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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2012, 01:00:45 pm »
How many pieces to this box?

The first and last look like the same (top upright and turned over)
But the 2nd pic has two pieces?

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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2012, 01:09:29 pm »
KC - the first pic shows the top of the box - the 2nd shows the two pieces inside and the 3rd shows the bottom of the bottom piece if that makes sense.

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Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2012, 02:08:26 pm »
I am going to try and get a picture of it closed from the side.