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Thread Number: 75152
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Post# 989672 4/6/2018 at 17:27 (2,211 days old) by RP2813  (Sannazay) |
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 My friend Lisa was recently clearing out her mom's San Francisco home of many years before putting it on the market, and she found the item pictured below. She thought I might know what it was. I told her I didn't, but that I knew a good place to inquire about it . . . | ||
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Post# 989684 , Reply# 1 4/6/2018 at 19:48 (2,211 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Post# 989702 , Reply# 2 4/6/2018 at 22:03 (2,211 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Post# 989705 , Reply# 3 4/6/2018 at 22:31 (2,211 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay) |
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It does seem to be ceramic. At first I thought the "tray" part might be a lid to something that's missing, but the "tray" bottom looks like one, with markings and what have you barely visible under the glaze. It's definitely not a lid.
I'm wondering if there was ever a fourth trough, and if there's some sort of lid that goes over what's pictured above, or if what we see is what was gotten.
Whatever it is, it's some sort of novelty item that either never caught on or didn't last long. The weirdest thing about it is that it looks like it's been used. Whether that was for its intended purpose or something else, we won't ever never know. | ||
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Post# 989744 , Reply# 4 4/7/2018 at 10:01 (2,210 days old) by Chachp (North Little Rock, AR) |
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Making Brownies? | ||
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Post# 989746 , Reply# 5 4/7/2018 at 10:18 (2,210 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Post# 989769 , Reply# 6 4/7/2018 at 13:11 (2,210 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay) |
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Over 200 views and still nobody knows!
I was thinking the troughs might be for olives, but they'd require a trick to remove them. And everything is just loose parts.
We have a local antiques guy whose column appears in the paper every Sunday. He'll often post a picture from a reader who is trying to identify something. I might have to send him a shot of this thing, even though it's not quite an antique. | ||
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Post# 989770 , Reply# 7 4/7/2018 at 13:21 (2,210 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Ralph,
What does the other side look like? I have a feeling that this may be the lid to something, what I don’t know, but those troughs may be there to hold some apparatus in place in whatever the lower part is that this lid goes to. The lip around the edge defineltly looks like it is there to hold this lid in place on the thing it was meant to be on top of.
Eddie | ||
| Post# 989839 , Reply# 8 4/7/2018 at 21:24 (2,210 days old) by rpms (ontario canada) | ||
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Post# 989843 , Reply# 9 4/7/2018 at 22:21 (2,210 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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My thought | ||
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Post# 989854 , Reply# 10 4/8/2018 at 00:17 (2,209 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay) |
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Eddie, I thought it might be a lid for the same reasons you do. But the bottom, which would be the top of the lid, has irregularities and some stamped markings under its glaze, so I concluded that it's not a lid. It's definitely the bottom of whatever this is.
Now the question is whether there's a lid for what we see above. It could fit over/around the ridge on the "tray" thing. Lisa's mom was a hoarder in her old age, so it's possible she kept this thing even though it may or may not be complete. | ||
| Post# 989886 , Reply# 11 4/8/2018 at 09:02 (2,209 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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Could it be, to stand slices of bread up in to bake in the oven? | ||
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